Hackers Can Turn Body Cameras Into Malware Spewing Machines
Once lauded as tools to enhance police accountability, body cameras have been facing increasing scrutiny from privacy advocates, and now […]
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Why consumer messaging apps raise business data security fears?
Consumer apps such as WhatsApp are widely used by businesses as a free and easy method of mobile communication, but […]
How to turn off Google’s location tracking
Turning off location history won’t hide where you are when you use search, Maps or weather. Here’s how to stop […]
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 […]
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 […]