Tag: Data Privacy

TikTok, the wildly popular but highly controversial social media app from Chinese tech company, ByteDance, was reportedly collecting the MAC addresses of millions of...

Canada's competition watchdog has fined Facebook CA$9 million (around Rs. 48 crores) for making "false or misleading claims" about its privacy settings. In a...

A day after noted cyber-security researcher, Baptiste Robert aka Elliot Alderson (@fs0c131y), claimed that a serious security vulnerability in the controversial Aarogya Setu app...

Security and privacy continues to be a nightmare with IoT devices, especially smart displays and connected cameras that have often been accused of spying...

Ten popular apps, including dating apps like Tinder, OKCupid and Grindr, have been found sharing people's personal information with dozens of digital marketing and...

A popular Emirati messaging app called ToTok has been removed from the Play Store and the App Store following a New York Times investigation...

The Chinese government has released a list of at least 41 apps and services that it says violate regulations on data collection. The list...

Almost a year and a half after the Cambridge Analytica scandal rocked Facebook and emboldened regulators around the world to clamp down on internet...

With data-sharing becoming an increasingly thorny issue among social media users, Instagram is introducing new in-app features to help users better control the data...

Facebook on Friday said it has suspended "tens of thousands" of apps that were found to be in violation of the company's privacy policies....

Google has agreed to pay a record $170 million to settle allegations by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the New York Attorney...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit against US telecom service provider, AT&T, for selling customer location data to...

The Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in the German state of Hesse has warned that the use of Office 365 and Windows...

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reportedly agreed to a $5 billion settlement with Facebook to end its probe into the latter's controversial...

Mozilla Firefox and its various forks - official or otherwise - have been the go-to web-browsers for privacy conscious netizens for the better part...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has called on technology companies to defend users' privacy as human right, urging firms and governments to collectively work together...

Embroiled in another massive data breach, Facebook may face $1.63 billion in fine from the European Union (EU) privacy watchdog, the media reported. According to...

If Facebook takes one thing away from 2017, it's that data privacy is not to be messed with, even if the company was not...

For privacy-conscious users, Google has always had the option of 'turning off location history' which blocks Google from tracking your whereabouts, for the most part. We...

The waves of Facebook's testimony on user privacy hit Apple and Google parent Alphabet last month when the Congress asked the two companies to...