A privacy watchdog rejected a call from Germany’s data protection regulator for an European ban on Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging service. The European Commission said that it will examine whether Ireland’s Facebook subsidiary is complying with the…
Australian users might use Google free services only as… paid services, the company announced. These would include everything, even the search results.
This is the result of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) ruling that the company…
For mishandling user information, Canada’s Competition Bureau established a new fine for Facebook. The Bureau decided a penalty of 6.5 million USD. This is far smaller than the one that international regulators decided in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The decision…
Hong Kong announced it would apply tougher penalties for data protection crimes. The decision comes after a serious breach appeared in 2018, at airline Cathay Pacific.
The amendments proposed to the regional government’s Personal Data Ordinance establish fines as a…
Two Romanian hackers infected 400,000 victims with malware and have been sentenced to jailtime. The malware stole credentials and financial information. So, it scammed victims out of four million dollars.
Bogdan Nicolescu, 37, and Radu Miclaus, 37, were sentenced to 20…
The Consumer Online Privacy Act (COPRA) was published by the senators of the United Sates. The document represents a comprehensive online privacy legislation that establishes privacy rights and outlaws harmful and deceptive practices. Also, it iproves data security safeguard…
10 Best Parental Control Tips to Protect Your Child’s Privacy Online
November 20, 2019
Does your child own a smartphone and spends more time online? If yes, you must bear specific points in mind and should start using the parental control app. Here are also 10 best parental control tips.
Do you know any of the digital hazards your child needs to be aware…
The padlock, a symbol of trust, is sometimes used by new types of malware to hide behind it. The green icon that you see at the top of your browser when visiting a website via a connection encrypted with a valid SSL/TLS certificate should not be mistaken with the…
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is talking about the “post-cookie” web world and proposes a digital token technology instead of cookies. IAB is the trade group that represents the online ad industry and media companies and proposes the creation of a digital…
After exposing CEO‘s account, private tweets, passwords, and personal data for hundreds of thousands of users, Twitter admitted a new security problem.
In a blog post, the company announced that the phone numbers and/or email addresses provided by its users for the…
