Tag: Data Privacy

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...

The draft personal data protection law recommended` by the Justice Srikrishna Committee proposes exemption of those personal information from disclosure under the Right to...

India is following the footsteps of the European Union and is likely to soon have a legislation which limits the control which tech companies...

A new case of breach of data privacy in India has surfaced in which the data of the applicants of a medical entrance exam...

A day after Apple CEO Tim Cook denied that the company ever received or asked for any private user-data from Facebook, it is now...