Let me just jump on my soapbox for a minute with regards to this subject, according to reports, the newly elected Conservative Government wants to again reintroduce the ...
July 10, 2015 at 9:00 pm by Christopher Files
Hackers stole crucial information on 21.5 million people in a cyber-attack carried out in June this year. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are responsible for 90% of ...
July 9, 2015 at 10:22 pm by John Williamson
Google’s reputation with privacy advocates is pretty abysmal and the latest revelation that audio footage has been monitored on PCs without permission will do little to ...
June 24, 2015 at 8:28 pm by John Williamson
Let’s picture the scene, you upload a snap of a special occasion to your Facebook account to share with your friends, family and followers, as there are many people in ...
June 23, 2015 at 12:58 pm by Christopher Files
Starting June 29th, popular site reddit will be enforcing HTTPS compliance with all of its traffic. Plaintext HTTP traffic will be rejected by the site starting on that date. ...
June 19, 2015 at 9:28 pm by Samuel Wan
Nine privacy advocates have abandoned a government organized forum around industry best practices for facial recognition. This comes after more than a year of talks, as ...
June 17, 2015 at 11:58 am by Samuel Wan
Governments have been requesting people’s details for a while now, from their internet providers to web-based forums, companies have been asked to reveal a myriad of ...
June 14, 2015 at 6:58 am by Gareth Andrews
Despite being the most popular computing company in the world, it’s rare that anyone has a good word to say about Apple, so it’s refreshing to hear Edward Snowden, the man ...
June 6, 2015 at 7:55 pm by Ashley Allen
Uber, the car sharing phenomenon that has taken the world by storm; has recently updated its terms and conditions to include a new tracking feature for the drivers. This new ...
May 31, 2015 at 7:55 pm by Rikki Wright
Steve Wozniak, who co-founder Apple with Steve Jobs, has celebrated NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, calling him a “total hero” who “gave up his own life […] to help ...
May 28, 2015 at 1:58 am by Ashley Allen
In a post on its blog, Mozilla has expressed its deep concern over the French National Assembly’s Projet de Loi Relatif au Renseignement, a new law which legitimises mass ...
May 14, 2015 at 5:58 am by Ashley Allen
A woman in California claims that her uninstalling an app has led to her being fired. The reason for uninstalling the app? The 24/7 monitoring of her location using the ...
May 12, 2015 at 12:58 am by Gareth Andrews
Since the Snowden leaks in mid-2013, governments have been mixed about reviewing and releasing information about their digital monitoring methods. From newspapers accessing ...
May 5, 2015 at 2:58 am by Gareth Andrews
It’s no secret that Facebook is greedy for your data – it’ll take anything you offer up and sell it on to advertisers – but it has been revealed that the social ...
April 23, 2015 at 6:57 pm by Ashley Allen
Facebook had a lot of privacy concerns in the past, and it looks like they just keep on coming. Researchers from the Belgium data protection agency have also determined that ...
April 2, 2015 at 2:58 am by Gabriel Roşu
