With a vote of 50-48, a Republican majority US senate has voted to strip away Federal Communications Commission (FCC) broadband privacy protection rules which will allow ...
March 25, 2017 at 4:28 am by Ron Perillo
A UK startup has launched a new app for finding Facebook users by using a photo of their face that is sure to benefit creepy stalkers and their trademark creepy stalking. ...
March 14, 2017 at 5:57 pm by Ashley Allen
The European Union’s data protection organisations have again expressed concern over the default privacy settings in Microsoft’s Windows 10, despite the recent ...
February 21, 2017 at 7:40 pm by Ashley Allen
US telecoms giant has snapped up Yahoo for $4.48 billion, which is $350 million less than it had originally agreed to pay for the internet tech company after it was revealed ...
February 21, 2017 at 6:32 pm by Ashley Allen
Researchers from Standford and Princeton University have released a study showing that anonymized web behaviour can still be identified via social media profiles. Google and ...
January 22, 2017 at 7:30 pm by Ron Perillo
Chinese app Meitu which has gained extreme popularity worldwide allowing users to apply “beauty” filters and virtual makeup to their photos has been revealed to be ...
January 20, 2017 at 8:00 pm by Ron Perillo
Privacy advocacy groups are warning of certain internet-connected toy dolls using voice recognition technology subjecting users to ongoing surveillance without prior ...
December 12, 2016 at 11:00 pm by Ron Perillo
Iceland is to become the first country in the world to have “Pirate” politicians in power after the nation’s Pirate Party was asked to form a coalition government ...
December 8, 2016 at 10:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Privacy advocates such as the Electronic Privacy Information Center have raised concern regarding the latest update for the Uber ride sharing app which tracks user location ...
December 8, 2016 at 4:20 pm by Ron Perillo
Protecting your privacy online is an upwards struggle and websites typically stores vast sums of data about your identity. Of course, certain services are more guilty of this ...
October 8, 2016 at 8:40 pm by John Williamson
French authorities have issued Microsoft a formal notice to stop collecting data via Windows 10. According to the notice, issued by the Chair of the National Data Protection ...
July 22, 2016 at 7:44 pm by Ashley Allen
Home computer users should have no expectation of privacy if their system is connected to the internet, a federal judge from the Eastern District of Virginia has ruled. The ...
June 30, 2016 at 4:20 pm by Ashley Allen
These days the whole decision behind companies and software comes down to as simple a thing as their policies and in that regard Apple seems to be taking on Microsoft by ...
June 27, 2016 at 12:20 pm by Gareth Andrews
When it comes to questionable legal practices, the FBI almost has a storybook written on it. From their part in the PRISM program, monitoring and tracking people from all over ...
June 26, 2016 at 11:40 am by Gareth Andrews
When it comes to your information, keeping it up to date and private are some of the most important things in an age where companies are hacked on a regular basis and trade ...
June 2, 2016 at 11:00 am by Gareth Andrews
