Privacy

Parents concerned with protecting their kids online can take advantage of the newest AI-powered apps and controls to hit the market. Here’s the latest roundup.

Government agencies have thirty days to ensure the Chinese-owned TikTok app has been completely wiped from any federal device or system.

Fayvo, an app designed to have all your favorites in one place, spilled user information exposing them to phishing and similar malicious attacks.

The White Castle fast food chain could be forced to pay billions in fines after being found guilty of collecting its employees' biometric fingerprints without consent.

A group of US telecom companies have been charged by the feds for their involvement in millions of illegal telemarketing calls made to American consumers.

Data brokers sit on a treasure trove of personal data, including demographic details, court and criminal records, and Social Security Numbers. The biggest data broker hack ever led to the exposure of nearly 180 million user records.

The Madison Square Garden story of a venue using face algorithms to deny entry to certain people is a watershed moment that should concern everyone.

Rarely a stranger to controversy, TikTok has been slammed yet again for launching an advertising emotion tracker – a disputed tech feature that digital human rights group Access Now has described as “another privacy nightmare” for 200 million users in Europe alone.

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed many development teams into hyper-release cycles for mobile and other web application solutions for their customers.

A leading electrical engineering company in Russia, Elevel, has exposed its customers' personally identifiable information (PII,) including full names and addresses.

Two senators have written an open letter to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, claiming to have seen leaked documents that suggest Facebook allowed more developers from a wider range of blacklisted countries to view sensitive user data than was previously thought.

A popular dating app has introduced new features to ensure safe matchmaking.

Meta has announced legal action against controversial Voyager Labs.

A dating website promoting casual sex for Oxford students publicly shared a database with student and staff names, email addresses, and college names.

New state law says that users must verify their age before accessing any website where more than 33.3% of the content is X-rated.

The EU has a step towards ensuring its citizens have better protection from prying eyes in the US, with both parties agreeing to regulations that safeguard “transatlantic data flows.” In practice, this could mean American companies such as Meta being obliged to delete European citizens’ data instead of holding onto it indefinitely.

Hungary’s ruling party Fidesz has exploited personal data stored in government databases to send political spam to citizens in this year’s parliamentary elections, according to a report from Human Rights Watch.

A German-based company that offers one-stop encryption services for files held on major data storage centers such as Google Drive and Dropbox is selling up… to Dropbox.