Privacy International recently slammed the “dangerous lack of oversight” on intelligence-sharing arrangements between state spy agencies. The group argues that despite the importance of such sharing to national security, it could impinge on fundamental human rights as it could be used to circumvent constraints on...
A Kiwi tech startup called Centrality has reportedly raised hundreds of millions in funds despite being relatively unknown. The Auckland-based company, which is now valued at around $388 million, says it has developed a radical way to protect data privacy in New Zealand. Centrality, which is...
President of the Federal Cartel Office Andreas Mundt this week questioned the sheer volume of data that Facebook collects, especially those collected by the company from users outside of the social network. Mundt says he is awaiting Facebook’s response to his findings which point to...
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman R S Sharma said this week that they will finalize their recommendation on privacy, security and ownership of data for the telecom sector by the end of April. The recommendation was the result of the consultation paper which had been...
Earlier this week, Assistant Chief Executive Yeong Zee Kin of the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore said that the city-state’s government would like companies to cultivate a “data protection by design” approach to managing data. Yeong, who is also the Deputy Commissioner of Singapore’s...
In an interview last Monday, the Cambridge University researcher who scraped information on millions of Facebook users aired his side and said that the accusations against him were a little bit misleading. Aleksandr Kogan said that he did not carry out a hack, but instead merely...
According to the inaugural Tech Media Telecom Pulse Survey by HarrisX, as high as 83% out of 2500 Americans want harsher penalties for companies that get hit by data breaches. 84% also said that tech companies should be held legally responsible for the content they carry...
Oculus, the Facebook-owned VR company, recently announced that it has created a “My Privacy Center” where users can see all the data collected from them by the company. It will officially be launched on May 20th, just a little before the EU’s GDPR will take...
It was reported last Friday that Hamburg’s Data Protection Commissioner, Johannes Caspar, had reportedly filed a non-compliance procedure against Facebook in relation to the alleged data abuse involving Cambridge Analytica. The case could potentially penalize Facebook up to $370,000, which is said to be an insignificant...
An assessment which PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP had previously submitted to the FTC surfaced in a report by the Wall Street Journal report last Thursday. It revealed that the auditing firm had cleared Facebook’s privacy practices during the period when Cambridge Analytica had been able to scrape...