It was revealed this week that a Florida-marketing company called Exactis may have compromised the personal data of 340 million people by inadvertently leaving a server publicly accessible. Discovered by security researcher Vinny Troia of Night Lion Security, the server had apparently contained two terabytes worth...
Privacy experts from Consumer Reports recently said that a number of Facebook’s privacy settings remain confusing and hard to use, despite the company vowing to “put more people in control of their privacy”. Even after the company’s scandal with Cambridge Analytica, and after the GDPR has...
A new study by the Norwegian Consumer Council says that Facebook and Google are continuing to manipulate people into sharing more data despite the advent of EU’s new data protection laws. In a study entitled “Deceived by Design”, the council found that both companies often set...
Stephen Satterfield, a privacy policy director at Facebook told EU lawmakers this week that they have not found any indications that EU user data had been shared with Cambridge Analytica. Facebook vice president of policy solutions Richard Allan added that said that the Cambridge Analytica researcher...
The city of Orlando, Florida had reportedly stopped testing Amazon’s facial recognition program after receiving complaints from rights groups who argued that the service could be used in ways that violate civil liberties. The Florida city decided not to continue the pilot program after its contract...
A number of major American news sites like the Los Angeles Times and New York Daily are still blocking readers from the EU after the implementation of the GDPR. It is said that a number of websites owned by Tronc and Lee Enterprises are affected,...
Dr. Zhang Weining, an associate professor at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, recently remarked that the Chinese people do not care much about privacy since it is an alien concept to them. He argued that culture in the country makes it common, particularly for...
Reuters said this week that financial watchdogs from North America, Britain and Asia are pressuring the European Data Protection Board to sign an agreement which will exempt them from the GDPR which are causing delays with cross-border investigations. EU’s new data privacy law, which came...
China is reportedly developing drones which look like birds in an effort to increase the government’s public surveillance powers. The South China Morning Post reported that the government’s program, codenamed “Dove”, will be using small drones that are designed to fly like birds. The drones, which...
The Information Technology Industry Council organized an event this week in San Francisco which will be attended by privacy and government affairs officers from global tech companies to discuss consumer privacy concerns. The all-day meeting will be hosted by the Washington trade group that represents major...