Earlier this week, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that his company cared about privacy even before everyone cared about it and said that they recognized even before that building detailed profiles on people could potentially lead to harm. Cook also warned that people in today's environment...
Deputy Assistant Director Robert Novy of the US Secret Service reportedly urged Congress to consider tighter regulations against “anonymity-enhanced” cryptocurrencies such as Monero and ZCash. Novy emphasized that Congress needs to ensure that law enforcement agencies have legal access to critical sources of evidence, regardless...
A developer this week revealed to TechCrunch that Facebook inadvertently emailed their App Analytics weekly summary to someone outside of their organization. The summary, which includes sensitive business information such as weekly average users, page views and new users, were apparently sent to app testers...
Several Indian IT firms such as Tata Consultancy, Wipro, and Mindtree recently called EU’s new privacy rules a “compliance risk” that may bring severe consequences for breach or non-compliance. In their 2018 fiscal report, the companies agreed to call the GDPR a risk as it could...
UK privacy watchdog Big Brother Watch recently found that HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) had collected the voice recordings of around 5.1 million citizens using its Voice ID service which was launched in January 2017. HMRC initially informed visitors that they would be able to...
A Telstra-backed online appointment booking service was found to have shared the medical data of around 200 clients per month with personal injury lawyers Slater and Gordon who are said to have been used the information for targeting ads. The startup reportedly gave information to the...
In a recent study called “Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?”, researchers from the University of British Columbia, University of Calgary, University of California Berkeley, Stony Brook University, IMDEA Networks and International Computer Science Institute established that most free apps designed for younger users violate...
Reps. Dave Loebsack of Iowa and Frank Pallone Jr. of New Jersey questioned this week four genetic testing companies over concerns regarding their customer privacy and security policies. The representatives, who sit on the Energy and Commerce committee which handles health care and privacy issues...
A number of key consumer data privacy concerns were highlighted in a survey conducted by Viber which polled 1500 individuals between March 23 to 26 of this year. It highlighted that consumers are no longer too concerned with the privacy of their data on social...
New Federal Trade Commission chairman Joseph Simons announced this week that his agency will be pursuing a landmark series of hearings to see whether it is necessary to overhaul consumer protection and competition regulation to cope with emerging technologies and evolving business practices. The FTC says...