British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica has announced this week that it will be shutting down amid the privacy scandal involving US tech giant Facebook. The embattled UK firm said that it had been a victim of unfounded accusations and vilified for activities that are not...
The Australian government published last Wednesday its reply to proposals to use citizen information as Facebook-like data points, pledging 65 million AUD for the move to harness big data. Responding to the Data Availability and Use inquiry, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Digital Transformation...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that the social network will be launching a feature called Clear History which will allow users to clean their data trail similar to clearing the history on a browser. Zuckerberg further revealed that the company is already talking to various...
Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor, recently remarked that the US’s days of isolation in terms of privacy regulations are about to end. According to the top EU data watchdog, he found that a lot of US citizens and NGOs are now seeking stronger...
Researchers from the Imperial College of London recently found that it was possible to use the noise added to the system for privacy to determine an individual's private attributes with up to 99% accuracy. Diffix, which was recently commercialized and approved by French data protection authority...
Google earlier this week revealed a tool that can measure consumer spending at a merchant’s physical store in relation to their ad clicks. The tool works by matching the combined ad clicks of users who are logged into Google services with their collective purchases on credit...
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) recently warned in their security bulletin that some of their devices are vulnerable to a bug called Krack (Key Reinstallation Attack) which exploits a flaw in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) security protocol used by almost all modern wireless...
Facebook had reportedly made a last ditch effort to block the referral of its Irish privacy case to the European Court of Justice to avoid a ban on the legal instrument that allows the company to send user data back to the US. It is said...
The European Innovation, Technology, and Science Center (EITSC) and the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) have recently entered an agreement to make all zones under the authority compliant to the Data Privacy Act of 2012. According to the memorandum of agreement signed last April 25, the...
Phonemaker BLU settled with the US Federal Trade Commission this week and agreed to implement a "comprehensive data-security program" where it will be subjected to third-party assessments of its security program every two years for 20 years. BLU had been found to be sharing sensitive...