Last Monday, California judge James Donato ruled to certify a class of Facebook users and allowed a class action lawsuit against Facebook’s use of facial recognition technology to continue. The class is made up of users in Illinois that Facebook had taken and stored a...
A recent study conducted by the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California at Berkeley found that there are thousands of apps on Google’s Play Store which may be violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The researchers analyzed 6000 apps and discovered...
It was reported last Monday that France is building its own encrypted messaging system as an alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram which, according to the government, carry the risk of a data leak. The move is said to have been prompted by Facebook’s recent privacy scandal,...
Ikea revealed earlier this week that its odd jobs marketplace, TaskRabbit, may have been involved in a data breach and its app and website had to be temporarily shut down. The company said that they are currently investigating the incident with authorities and urged users to...
A recent study from research firm Techpinions showed that one in ten users in the US are leaving Facebook prompted by privacy concerns raised by recent issues such as the one involving Cambridge Analytica. In a survey of 1000 Americans, around 17% said that they had...
According to a new study conducted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Ipsos, in collaboration with UNCTAD and the Internet Society showed that around four fifths of users from North America consider internet companies to be their primary source of online anxiety. The result...
Several digital political advertisers recently divulged that they have already found a number of ways to flout Facebook’s new privacy rules in preparation for the US midterm elections. The source revealed that it is possible to get around Facebook’s restriction on petitions just by using Facebook...
Experts have recently noted that search giant Google had been able to successfully avoid a privacy backlash even though it collects more data than Facebook. However, they pointed out that the new rules the company had rolled out for its DoubleClick system may leave it...
Patrick Armstrong, CIO at Plurimi Investment Managers, recently warned that social media stocks are likely to drop as more privacy issues emerge. Armstrong said that even though Facebook is presently at the epicenter of the privacy scandal, it is likely that similar occurrences have happened...
Chinese authorities recently shut down an art exhibition by an artist named Deng Yufeng in the city of Wuhan for buying the personal information of citizens. In his exhibit called "346,000 Wuhan Citizens' Secrets," Deng printed the pieces of personal data on sheets of paper...