Security researcher Brian Krebs reported this week that data aggregator LocationSmart has leaked the location data of customers of all major US mobile carriers due to a buggy component on its website. Krebs said the data had been leaked without the need for any password or...
Speaking at the 2nd World Intelligence Conference in Tianjin, Alibaba founder Jack Ma said that he considers Bitcoin to be a bubble, but not blockchain, its underpinning technology. Ma revealed that they have been researching blockchain for years and strongly believe that it can provide a...
Tech website Motherboard recently reported that a hacker had provided them data from a company called Securus which assists law enforcement to track nearly any phone across the US. The hacker is said to have provided usernames and passwords for thousands of Securus’ law enforcement...
European Parliament president Antonio Tajani said last Wednesday that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has accepted their invitation and will be meeting with them in Brussels around next week. Zuckerberg is expected to answer questions from European leaders on the misuse of millions of users’ data by...
Facebook privacy scandal whistleblower Christopher Wylie told a Senate panel last Wednesday that former White House adviser Steve Bannon sought to use the information harvested by Cambridge Analytica to start a "culture war" in the US to create “enduring change” in American politics. When questioned by...
It was reported that DNS overseer ICANN has told internet companies under contract with the WHOIS policy to implement its new draft before May 25 in order to be compliant with the GDPR privacy legislation. However, it was noted that companies are going to have a...
It was revealed last week that the personal details of another 3 million Facebook users had been exposed by a rogue app called “myPersonality”. The quiz app is said to have collected highly personal information, including the results of psychological tests, which were uploaded to...
Blockchain startup Enigma recently gave a public demonstration of its privacy-oriented blockchain protocol at CoinDesk's Consensus 2018 conference last Tuesday. Former MIT researcher, co-founder and CEO Guy Zyskind says that the technology, which he first introduced in 2015, is a rebuild of the foundational layer of...
It was recently reported that Google’s email campaign which seeks to notify all of its customers worldwide of its updated privacy policy has become the biggest in the company’s entire history. Google’s global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer revealed last Monday that the campaign has become too...
22 advocacy groups have recently filed a complaint against YouTube for allegedly collecting data on children. The coalition, which had asked for the involvement of the FTC, says that the Alphabet-owned video streaming website has violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). According to the...