Following Netflix’s launch in Australia, a region that was previously full of Netflix ‘VPN pirates’, company CEO Reed Hastings has said that he aims to make the VPN ...
March 30, 2015 at 3:58 am by Ashley Allen
Apple’s voice recognition personal assistant Siri has been collecting and transmitting user voice data to third-party companies. The news was revealed on reddit by user ...
March 15, 2015 at 10:28 am by Ashley Allen
Tim Cook was in London yesterday giving an interview to The Telegraph, in which he covered a whole range of topics, including the subject of privacy. Cook has always been a ...
March 1, 2015 at 5:58 am by Ryan Simmons
It looks like the NSA or other government agencies might not be the only ones that have access to your personal details. Everyone with Internet access could have seen your ...
February 28, 2015 at 9:47 am by Gabriel Roşu
In the wake of the recent hacks, President Obama is doing his best to increase data sharing between all major companies and the federal government. He is doing this using the ...
February 15, 2015 at 4:58 pm by Joe Dincer-Ubl
The terms and conditions of Samsung’s Smart TV’s voice control capabilities have caused a bit of an uproar on the web. An image comparing one section of those ...
February 9, 2015 at 3:58 pm by Ryan Simmons
As part of its annual transparency report, released on Thursday, reddit has revealed that it turned down 42% of all official requests for user data in 2014. Granted, ...
January 31, 2015 at 7:58 pm by Ashley Allen
New information is continually being leaked by Edward Snowden and today is no exception. He’s revealed how the British GCHQ managed to track iPhones in 2010, using a ...
January 19, 2015 at 3:58 pm by Ryan Simmons
For the first time ever, GCHQ, the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, Britain’s equivalent of the NSA, has allowed members of the media access to its ...
January 17, 2015 at 11:55 pm by Ryan Simmons
After revelations regarding the Snapchat’s failure to protect user privacy, the US Federal Trade Commission has finalised charges against the company. On 31st December, the ...
January 3, 2015 at 12:16 pm by Ashley Allen
A new messaging app for iOS allows users to delete sent texts from the recipient’s phone, whether they’ve read them or not. The app, called Strings, allows users to send ...
January 3, 2015 at 1:31 am by Ashley Allen
Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has announced plans to release an encrypted, in-browser video chat service through his Twitter account. The service, called MegaChat, will ...
December 30, 2014 at 7:58 am by Ashley Allen
A California judge ruled on Tuesday that Facebook must face a class action lawsuit for scanning users’ private messages without consent. Judge Phyllis Hamilton of Oakland, ...
December 26, 2014 at 9:52 pm by Ashley Allen
Since Edward Snowden leaked details of ethically-questionable spying techniques used by three UK intelligence agencies last year, civil rights groups such as Anmesty ...
December 13, 2014 at 3:43 am by Ashley Allen
Although mobiles apps aimed at children usually require parental consent, most parents probably aren’t aware that these apps are tracking and collecting data on their kids. ...
December 8, 2014 at 9:38 pm by Ashley Allen
