by Surur
2 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
2 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
2 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...
by Surur
2 months
Google is once again being accused of tracking users against their explicit will, with a California lawsuit alleging that Google tracks user activity through hundreds of thousands of apps, even after people opt-out of sharing info...
by Surur
2 months
We reported recently that LinkedIn was one of the applications discovered to be snooping on the clipboard of iOS users by new privacy and security measures in iOS14. Once discovered Microsoft rapidly corrected the issue, but not f...
by Surur
3 months
We reported a week ago that changes to iOS14 have revealed a number of apps have been copying your clipboard without any prompt from the user, including apps such as famously TikTok, but also Microsoft Teams. It turns out Linkedin...
by Sean Chan
3 months
Microsoft has collaborated with Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science to create a first-of-its-kind open-source platform for differential privacy. The technology will allow researchers to preserve us...
by Surur
3 months
Today Google has announced new privacy measures aimed to reassure users that Google is treating their data responsibly. The first is new auto-delete controls, which will automatically and continuously delete your Location History...
by Surur
3 months
One of the reasons people use minority browsers like Firefox and Opera is to not have their browser data in the hands of a big company like Google and Microsoft. Privacy-preoccupied Firefox users were therefore understandably anno...
by Surur
3 months
A few weeks ago we reported that troubled video conferencing company Zoom was set to offer end to end encryption for video calls, but only for paying customers. The company said this was to allow them to easily work together with ...
by Surur
4 months
We reported two days ago that Zoom will not be supporting end-to-end encryption for non-paying customers, saying the company reserved the right to observe meetings for enforcement purposes. Now in their recent financial results co...