Facebook’s privacy issues have been at the centre of discussions recently and now it appears they are using controversial privacy features. Apple has acted fast and a new report has…
Privacy settings and personal data are both topics of conversation at the moment. It all started with Facebook and Instagram with the Cambridge Analytica disaster. Since then many other services…
Apple has blocked ‘pervasive’ tracking on their web browser Safari, causing advertising firms to lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars. According to advertising technology firm Criteo, the Intelligent…
Russian company NTechLab has a program that is capable of identifying strangers among a crowd of 300 million Twitter users. The product is called ‘FindFace’ and has been created to…
The augmented reality business Blippar is moving its app towards facial recognition, allowing users to literally put a name to a face. Blippar uses machine learning and augmented reality to…
Windows 10 has been dogged by negative publicity about privacy concerns – and these issues have led many users of this Microsoft operating system to reveal that they would consider…
Apple’s ongoing tussle with the FBI has brought the issues of privacy and security to greater public attention. Now, USMobile has launched Scrambl3, an iOS app enabling high-value targets of…
Thanks to a more desktop-oriented interface and favorable reviews, Windows 10 has had a decent honeymoon since its launch in July – but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from openly addressing…
Two weeks ago, Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly re-iterated his company’s commitment to user privacy and implied that rivals including Facebook and Google were trailing Apple in this area. His…
The vast majority – 91% – of Americans believe that consumers have lost control over how personal information is collected and used by companies, according to a survey. A further…
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook was quoted on Friday as saying he had “very open” talks on privacy and security with a senior Chinese official, days after a web monitoring…
European data privacy regulators on Thursday handed Google a package of guidelines to help it bring the way it collects and stores user data in line with EU law after six regulators…
Austrian law student and privacy advocate Max Schrems filed a class action suit against Facebook for violating European privacy laws by sharing private user data. Schrems alleges that Facebook’s data policy…
(Reuters) – Edward Snowden, a former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of major U.S. surveillance programs, called on supporters at a hacking conference to spur development of easy-to-use…
Ever since it was revealed that the NSA can access people’s computers and tap into private information, alarmed United States citizens have been turning to private clouds for data security. What…
