privacy

UK Privacy and Apps Under Threat

Let me just jump on my soapbox for a minute with regards to this subject, according to reports, the newly…

9 years ago

Hackers Gain Access To Government Data On 21.5 Million People

Hackers stole crucial information on 21.5 million people in a cyber-attack carried out in June this year. The Office of…

9 years ago

Google’s Covert Snooping Tool Installed Without User Consent

Google's reputation with privacy advocates is pretty abysmal and the latest revelation that audio footage has been monitored on PCs…

9 years ago

Facebook Knows When You Missed The Flash

Let's picture the scene, you upload a snap of a special occasion to your Facebook account to share with your…

9 years ago

reddit Ditches HTTP Goes All In HTTPS

Starting June 29th, popular site reddit will be enforcing HTTPS compliance with all of its traffic. Plaintext HTTP traffic will be…

9 years ago

US Retailers Want In Store Facial Recognition Without Consent

Nine privacy advocates have abandoned a government organized forum around industry best practices for facial recognition. This comes after more than…

9 years ago

Amazon Breaks Silence On Disclosure Requests and PRISM

Governments have been requesting people's details for a while now, from their internet providers to web-based forums, companies have been…

9 years ago

Edward Snowden Praises Apple’s “Pioneering” Work in Privacy

Despite being the most popular computing company in the world, it’s rare that anyone has a good word to say…

9 years ago

Uber Drivers Can Track You if You Agree

Uber, the car sharing phenomenon that has taken the world by storm; has recently updated its terms and conditions to…

9 years ago

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Proclaims Edward Snowden “a Hero”

Steve Wozniak, who co-founder Apple with Steve Jobs, has celebrated NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, calling him a “total hero” who…

9 years ago

Mozilla Protests Against France’s New Mass Surveillance Law

In a post on its blog, Mozilla has expressed its deep concern over the French National Assembly’s Projet de Loi…

10 years ago

Does Your Boss Know Where You Are? Or Fired Because You Uninstalled A GPS Tracker?

A woman in California claims that her uninstalling an app has led to her being fired. The reason for uninstalling…

10 years ago

Who’s Listening to Your Communications?

Since the Snowden leaks in mid-2013, governments have been mixed about reviewing and releasing information about their digital monitoring methods.…

10 years ago

Facebook Collects All Text Typed Into it, Whether Posted or Not

It’s no secret that Facebook is greedy for your data – it’ll take anything you offer up and sell it…

10 years ago

Researchers Say Facebook Tracking Violates European Union Privacy Law

Facebook had a lot of privacy concerns in the past, and it looks like they just keep on coming. Researchers…

10 years ago