Apple, Google Both Track Mobile Telemetry Data, Despite Users Opting Out
Google’s Pixel and Apple’s iPhone both in privacy hot seat for siphoning mobile device data without consent.
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Smartphones share our data every four and a half minutes
Research claims there is little difference between Apple and Google when it comes to collecting certain data.
TikTok Doesn’t Pose Overt Threat to U.S. National Security
The computer code underlying TikTok doesn’t pose a national security threat to the U.S., according to a new study by university cybersecurity researchers.
Getting lost in the crowd: The limits of privacy in location data
If the dataset was big enough, would individual records become anonymous by being “lost in the crowd”? Researchers discuss how there are limits to privacy in location datasets.
More Mac malware was detected last year than ever before
macOS malware development surged by over 1,000% in 2020, report says.
Study warns deepfakes can fool facial recognition
In a new study, researchers find that commercial facial recognition APIs can be easily fooled by deepfakes.
Thought-detection: AI has infiltrated our last bastion of privacy
Research from the UK and an update from Elon Musk on human trials at his brain interface company show software is now eating the mind.
Ranking Digital Rights flunks the tech giants
Even Twitter, the highest-ranked company in Ranking Digital Rights’ study, gets dinged for insufficient transparency. And Amazon’s rating is far worse.
45% of Americans have had their personal information exposed in a data breach
Over 4,500 data breaches have been made public since 2005, and 45% of Americans have had their personal information exposed in a data breach in the last five years.
Facebook to give academics access to political advertising data
Facebook will open up targeting information for more than 1.3m social issue, electoral and political ads to researchers .
Brazilians mostly unaware of data protection regulations
Despite concerns over potential misuse and lack of trust, research has found consumers are not questioning corporate practices around personal data handling.
2 in 3 US Consumers Don’t Care Whether Or Not Their Devices are Recording All the Time
6.7 percent of U.S. residents over 18 wouldn’t have a problem finding out a home gadget is listening in on what’s going on inside their home.