A startup named SwipeCrypto recently promised to use blockchain technology to address the current data privacy problems brought to light by Facebook’s scandal. The startup said that it is building a decentralized data privacy and monetization platform on top of the Ethereum platform which should...
Piriform, the company behind CCleaner, recently said that it will be rolling back the latest version of the system cleaning tool to v5.44 after receiving significant user backlash triggered by its new data collection policy. Users complained that it was not possible to deactivate v5.45’s...
Smartmatic Philippines president Jane Coo said this week that the European Commission has awarded its Cybernetica Centre of Excellence for Internet Voting a research grant that would help it improve the way elections are conducted in the country. The grant was given under EU’s Horizon 2020...
It was revealed this week that the Hyperledger Fabric V1.2 may solve some key problems of the blockchain that prevent it from being fully compliant with EU’s new data rules. In the latest release of the blockchain framework implementation, Hyperledger will be introducing the concept...
The Unique Identification Authority of India said last Sunday that parties with vested interests are taking advantage of a Google mistake to sow fears against India’s biometric database system. This was in response to the tweets of French cyber security expert “Elliot Alderson” revealing the presence...
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has compelled the federal government this week to reveal data on its cellphone spying programs by filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit this week in a US District Court in Washington. In its complaint, EPIC challenged the use, effectiveness, cost...
FTC chair Joseph Simons and associate director for the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection Maneesha Mithal discussed before the US Congress this week the agency’s enforcement efforts and reiterated that data security and privacy are still top priorities for the agency. Simons also argued that...
It has been reported that India’s Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) recently stopped publishing raw transactional trade data of every product being imported and exported by the country. The trade database, which provided market intel for traders and businesses, also included information on...
A recent report by Ernst & Young showed that an increasing number of Indian companies are putting up bigger budgets for data protection for the next year, to ensure compliance with the GDPR and the country’s proposed Data Privacy Bill. According to the report, ‘General Data...
Bloomberg recently pointed out a “glaring gap” in the new data privacy guidelines agreed to by major DNA testing companies including Ancestry.com and 23andMe. It was pointed out by Vanderbilt University researcher James Hazel that the agreement does not cover de-identified genetic data. Meanwhile, Marc...