Browsing: privacy

Privacy watchdogs in the UK and Canada launched a joint investigation into the 23andMe data breach last year. On Monday, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)…

Two senior officials working for the counter-terrorism police in Bangladesh allegedly collected and sold private and personal information of citizens to criminals on Telegram, according to…

The next few weeks can be decisive for Worldcointhe controversial eyeball-scanning crypto venture co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, whose operations remain almost entirely shuttered in the…

Last week, an unknown hacker broke into the servers of US-based stalkerware maker pcTattletale. The hacker then stole and leaked the company’s internal data. They also…

According to TechCrunch, a leading European privacy watchdog is investigating after recent breaches of Dell customers’ personal information. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) deputy commissioner Graham…

The European Commission has again been called on to more fully disclose its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders, in relation to a controversial…

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced Monday that it is fining the four major U.S. wireless carriers about $200 million in total for “unlawfully” sharing and…

Last week when A security researcher said he could easily get the exact location of any of the millions of users of a widely used phone…

AT&T’s recent major breach of customer data — 74 million accounts were affected — revealed just how much data carriers have on their users, and that…

Businesses are amassing more data than ever to fuel their AI ambitions, but at the same time they’re also concerned about who can access that data,…