by Surur
2 weeks
Trolls and stalkers are a major issue on social networks, particularly when many people prefer to keep their profiles open for professional reason, but still attract attention from undesirable people which pollute their comments s...
by Surur
1 month
Microsoft was embroiled in a controversy last year when they unveiled their new Productivity Score feature, an element of their new Microsoft Workplace Analytics tool, which would assign a number to how well an employee was engagi...
by Surur
2 months
We reported yesterday that WhatsApp was halting the roll-out of their privacy update and pushing back the deadline when users will need to agree to share their data with Facebook. The company had miscalculated the reception their ...
by Pradeep
2 months
Microsoft yesterday announced that it is updating the way it asks for permission to use your voice data to improve Microsoft products that use its speech recognition technology. As a result, Microsoft now offers new settings to gi...
by Surur
2 months
After a week of protest which saw messaging app Signal catapulted to the top of the download charts, WhatsApp has decided to halt the roll-out of their controversial terms of service update, which asked users to agree to share dat...
by Surur
3 months
In a blog post, Microsoft announced new protections for their public sector and enterprise customers who need to move their data from the European Union, including a contractual commitment to challenge government requests for data...
by Surur
4 months
European privacy activist noyb has filed a complaint to Data Protection Authorities in Germany and Spain against Apple due to its use of an opt-out tracking cookie on all iPhones. The issue is due to Apple’s tracking code &...
by Pradeep
5 months
Microsoft recently highlighted that the US has fallen far behind the rest of the world in privacy protection. Microsoft specifically mentioned that the US lacks a strong national privacy law. Two years ago, the EU adopted GPDR to ...
by Surur
7 months
Twitter is in trouble with the US Government after the Federal Trade Commission started investigating a complaint against the company. The complaint alleges that between 2013 and 2019 Twitter was using phone numbers supplied solel...
by Surur
7 months
Microsoft has announced a new public preview of a new option for some customers to control their Windows diagnostic data. Windows diagnostic data is used to help Microsoft keep the operating system secure, up to date and operating...
by Surur
8 months
The European Court of Justice has just struck down the EU-US Privacy Sheild agreement, which has allowed US companies to transfer EU user data to USA, on the condition that the data would be dealt with to the same standard of requ...