Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap
The way you press, scroll and type on a phone screen or keyboard can be as unique as your fingerprints […]
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Under GDPR, publishers are adopting consent management platforms
More publishers are feeling under pressure to adopt a consent-management platform to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation. In […]
This powerful new “face search” engine could be a privacy nightmare
Cybersecurity firm Trustwave has released an open source tool to find accounts of large volumes of people across social media […]
Google tracks your movements, like it or not
Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it […]
Apple to US Congress: “We are radically different” on privacy
Apple has responded to a letter from Congress asking it to detail its data security and privacy issues, saying that […]
Crypto-Security – the Good, the Bad, and the McAfee
If you’ve been following the news over the past few days then you might have noticed our coverage on reported […]
Homeless shelter plans to ID clients with facial recognition
Agencies have struggled with how to identify clients that don’t have official ID, and one Calgary shelter thinks it might […]
PayPal, Square vulnerabilities impact mobile point-of-sale machines
Security flaws in mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) devices from vendors including Square, SumUp, iZettle, and PayPal have been disclosed by researchers. […]
10 ways China watches its citizens
From tracking the activity of mobile app users to setting up a social credit scorecard, the world’s most populated country […]
Facial recognition system to be used in 2020 Tokyo Olympics
A facial recognition system will be used across an Olympics for the first time as Tokyo organizers work to keep […]
When malware turns artificial intelligence into a weapon
AI can be used to automatically detect and combat malware — but this does not mean hackers can also use […]
Is GDPR an immovable block to blockchain?
A report has claimed that GDPR could hinder innovation in blockchain within Europe. If that is right, then this could […]