It has been reported that an online scam that is recently being spread is threatening its victims with blackmail via email. Recipients of the email are reportedly being extorted thousands of dollars by criminals who say that they have recorded embarrassing videos of the user...
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office revealed that it will be penalizing parenting website Emma’s Diary £140,000 for illegally sharing the data of around a million people to the Labour Party. The website for pregnant women was found to have sold the data under Lifecycle Marketing for...
Experts recently warned that China’s development of cross-border communication networks and e-commerce links may be used by Beijing for its intelligence operations. In its Belt and Road Initiative, China is reportedly engaging in various efforts such as build fiber optic cables, international trunk passageways and mobile...
According to CNN this week, Facebook had reportedly allowed Russian company Mail.Ru extended access to user data beyond its stop date of May 25. Facebook said that while Mail.Ru developed hundreds of apps, only two were granted a two-week extension and it did not see any...
Dean Garfield, president of the Information Technology Industry Council commented this week that faster development of national privacy standards was needed to avoid divergent state rules. On the sweeping privacy law that California recently passed, Garfield said that fragmentation among states can be avoided by quickly...
Privacy.com, a virtual card provider, announced this week an API that they plan to market directly to consumers. The new API will allow consumers to create views of their transactions on their Privacy.com cards, as well as set up push notifications for new transactions, or...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently reported that the free wifi kiosks across New York City employed dubious measures that disregarded data privacy. The kiosks that were insstalled by LinkNYC, a communications network that is replacing public pay phones with WiFi kiosks across New York City, was...
Users of Chinese-made Android phone Vivo NEX observed that their device’s camera would pop-up and self-activate when using certain mobile apps. It is said that perhaps unintentionally, the NEX’s camera design has given Chinese users a tangible way of knowing when exactly they are being...
The European Court of Justice ruled this week that in order to be compliant to the GDPR, Jehovah’s Witnesses should obtain consent before taking down personal details when they do door-to-door preaching. Finland was first to ban the religious denomination in 2013 from collecting personal...
A recent poll by Roy Morgan recently established that most Australian consumers are unwilling to act on privacy concerns even though they think it is unacceptable for companies to collect personal data for ad targeting. In a poll consisting of 967 Australians, around 92% found it...