Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) issued last Monday a new set of guidelines on in-vehicle recording devices (IVRDs) used by transport services. The PDPC said that services that use devices which can record images, video, and audio that can identify an individual must put the...
Last week, Facebook revealed that it will be notifying around 87 million of its users whose data had been improperly harvested and misused by political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. Facebook said that names, locations, information relating to content that users have liked, friend lists, etc had...
Earlier this week, around 20 privacy groups filed a complaint against YouTube with the FTC, claiming that the Google video sharing site had violated US data protection laws when it collected personal data from users under 13 years old. The complainants said that harvesting personal information...
Last Friday, the European Commission confirmed that the data of around 2.7 million European users had been misused in the privacy scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. This is according to the letter sent to them by the US social network, who also clarified this week...
It was revealed this week that Facebook had been working on a project where it had been planning a data sharing arrangement with a number of major US hospitals to determine which patients needed special treatment. The social network was said to have been in talks...
Malwarebytes researcher Nathan Collier recently revealed that a fake WhatsApp version is being circulated and used by attackers to collect sensitive information such as photos, phone numbers from Android mobile phones. The app, called WhatsApp Plus, is a variant of the Android/PUP.Riskware.Wtaspin.GB riskware identified in 2017....
Last Wednesday, Facebook refuted earlier reports which said that the data of around 50 million users had been improperly accessed by political analytics firm Cambridge Analytica breach. CEO Mark Zuckerberg clarified that the estimate is closer to around 87 million. He added that although they...
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) announced last Thursday that it has opened an official investigation into the privacy scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. After learning that the data of around 311,127 Australians had been misused by both firms, Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk...
In an interview earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg refuted a Reuters story which said that his company will not be providing GDPR privacy standards to other countries that use the social network. Zuckerberg clarified that Facebook will have the same privacy controls everywhere and...
A number of users reported that they were not able to log into popular dating app Tinder last Wednesday after Facebook had initiated a number of sweeping changes to its privacy rules. The Tinder app went into a cycle of login errors after Facebook tightened its...