A German privacy and security blogger Mike Kuketz recently revealed that a popular Firefox add-on named Web Security had secretly been collecting the browsing history of users. The add-on, which had already been used by 222,746 Firefox users, claims to actively protect from malware, tampered websites...
A recent report from Penguin Intelligence, Tencent’s research arm, suggests that the Chinese are increasingly showing concern on privacy-related issues. Despite the popular notion that Chinese netizens do not value their privacy, the data from the study says that 35% of 1,285 users said that...
OneTrust, a privacy management and marketing compliance firm, has recently opened registration for its global user conference called PrivacyTech, which will be held at Hotel Novotel London West this October. The conference will focus on technology for professionals in the privacy industry and provide attendees with...
India released this week the first draft of its Personal Data Protection Bill 2018, which is the country’s first comprehensive data protection regulation. Currently being reviewed by India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the bill seeks to outline the requirements and limitations for the...
According to Episerver’s 2018 Reimagining Commerce report, around 27% of UK marketers consider individual privacy to be an outdated concept. This is in contrast with the 94% of consumers that say they would not be willing to exchange their data for more relevant or personalized...
Privacy advocates recently voiced their concerns on a number of new surveillance and monitoring technologies being implemented by companies are said to be putting employee privacy at stake. One such example is a recently patented system by Walmart which allows the company to listen in...
Chinese lawyers recently said that new legislation was needed at the soonest possible time to enhance privacy protections that will better address problems with spam, unsolicited text messages and identity fraud Li Ya, a lawyer with Beijing Zhongwen Law Firm, said that there is no rule...
The Associated Press recently revealed that Google still tracks user location even if location services and history has been turned off on the device. It was discovered that Google stored a location snapshot of the user when Maps is launched. Automatic weather updates on Android phones...
Weiss Ratings recently encouraged governments around the world to adopt the use of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero, saying that there is a lot to be gained from the potential of the technology. Weiss and Villaverde said that the Privacy Distributed Ledger Technology used by Monero...
Advisory firm EY said this week that as much as 63% of Indian companies are still lagging on their compliance to the EU’s new data protection rules. The figure was established after the firm’s survey last April-June which covered 80 companies, including 11% of companies with...