User data use determined Germany’s antitrust watchdog open an investigation regarding Google. The authorities want to determine if the company violates country’s competition laws. They want to see if it is exploiting its dominance to prioritise its shopping price…
An leaked email shows that Facebook downplayed the importance of a serious data breach. The message reached the Belgium-based Data News. The document revealed company’s strategy for dealing with leaking details of more than half a billion users. Facebook…
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said that four US communications giants sold users’ location data. So, the commission suggested it might fine the nation’s four major wireless carriers, for selling the data without safeguards to prevent misuse. AT&T…
A leak exposed the data of 267 million Facebook users. According to Comparitech’s representatives, this was the result of a scraping operation carried out by cybercriminals. “One possibility is that the data was stolen from Facebook’s developer API before the…
Users would be able to stop the sale of personal information. The Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) announced that it would finalize mechanisms for this. This step complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The system could become effective on January 1st…
Google’s notice about its intention to restrict user’s data to advertisers comes into a 404 Error. Just five days after it was published on the blog, the news can not be accessed anymore.
After many critics, Google announced it would be taking one more step to…
The credit histories of more than one million Russians with data of mobile operators obtained from the Bureau of Credit Histories (BKI) were in the public domain since the end of August. Bob Dyachenko, an independent cybersecurity researcher discovered this data on October…
YouTube will have to pay $170 million because it broke federal law by collecting personal information about children. Federal Trade Commission announced that YouTube had been accused of tracking viewers of children’s channels using cookies without parental consent and…
The French retailer announced it discovered a data breach at the end of July, two weeks after it happened, according to The Independent. The personal information of the customers from Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Australia and New…
If you wish to retain your device’s privacy while surfing online, you can use the VPN for Windows offered in this guide. VPN or Virtual Private Network is an amazing technical innovation that helps in encrypting the network. Using a VPN, one can ensure that his…
