privacy

ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after foreign request approved by Swiss authorities

A police report revealed that the popular encrypted email service provider ProtonMail shared the IP address of a French activist with the…

3 years ago

Apple will delay the rollout of new child pornography protection tools

Apple will delay the introduction of its new child pornography protection tools due to a heated debate raised by privacy…

3 years ago

Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR

The German state's data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union's…

3 years ago

US banks are giving facial recognition a go; EU tightens regulations, FTC updates AI guidelines

US banks are giving the green light to the adoption of facial recognition technology, while authorities provide regulations and updates…

3 years ago

A dozen Android apps exposed data of 100M+ users

Check Point researchers found 23 Android apps that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million users. Security researchers…

3 years ago

Privacy Concerns On Cookies Storing Personal Information

Which are privacy concerns on the way organizations collect personal information through the use of cookies? Data is constantly being…

3 years ago

Scheme flooding fingerprint technique may deanonymize Tor users

FingerprintJS experts devised a fingerprinting technique, named scheme flooding, that could allow identifying users across different desktop browsers, including the…

3 years ago

How Companies Need to Treat User Data and Manage Their Partners

After the introduction of CCPA and GDPR, much more attention is given to third-party risks, and the privacy terms and…

3 years ago

WhatsApp will not deactivate accounts for not accepting new privacy terms

WhatsApp will not deactivate the accounts of users who don't accept the new privacy policy update that requires sharing data…

3 years ago

Boffins found a bug in Apple AirDrop that could leak users’ personal info

Experts found a bug in Apple's wireless file-sharing protocol Apple AirDrop that could expose user's contact information. Boffins from the…

4 years ago

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