How Facebook prioritizes privacy when you die
Should your parents be able to read your Facebook messages if you die? Facebook explained why it won’t let them […]
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Brexit: UK seeks data transfer pact with EU
The government’s latest Brexit paper discusses how data transfers will be affected by leaving the EU. Source: Brexit: UK seeks […]
Walmart partners with Google on voice-activated shopping
The world’s largest retailer said Wednesday it’s working with Google to offer hundreds of thousands of items from laundry detergent […]
Retailers’ web tracking can expose ‘real world identity’ of bitcoin users
Consumers who elect to pay for goods and services online using the cryptocurrency ‘bitcoin’ can have their identities exposed when […]
Encryption Technology Could Protect the Privacy of Your DNA
Your DNA is some of the most intimate information out there—encoded in it is information about your health, your personality, […]
AccuWeather caught sending user location data, even when location sharing is off
A security researcher has found that the popular weather app sends private location data without the user’s explicit permission to […]
Amazon may give developers your private Alexa transcripts
According to sources reported by The Information, Amazon is currently looking at opening up this private transcript data to its […]
UK outlines proposals for shared approach on data protection
The document outlines how the UK is considering an ambitious model for the protection and exchange of personal data with […]
Lawyers try to end warrantless smartphone searches at border
Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy at the border? The government has consistently argued no, but court cases […]
Data can shape behavior and solve bad health habits
Data which can track our psychological behavior is “something very powerful” and could help tackle unhealthy habits, according to the […]
What does it mean to be differentially private?
Back in June 2016, Apple announced it will use differential privacy to protect individual privacy for certain data that it […]
When the cookie meets the blockchain
Cryptocurrencies are portrayed as a more anonymous and less traceable method of payment than credit cards. So if you shop […]