All posts tagged "privacy"
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329SecurityNew Amazon Lawsuits Claim Alexa Illegally Records Children
Amazon’s Alexa has come under fire numerous times in the past year: it was first revealed that Amazon employees listen in to...
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779SecurityFacebook Is Willing To Pay You For Your Data
There’s been a lot of talk about how social media platforms collect data from the users recently and Facebook has come under...
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1.1KSecurityRussia Wants Access to Tinder’s Private Messages
Just as the dating app announced its partnership with LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD to launch create new profile fields, a disturbing report...
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667MiscApple Adds New Developer Guidelines To Protect Children’s Privacy
Apple announced a swarm of new things coming our way during the WWDC yesterday both in terms of software as well as...
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1.0KMiscLeave Privacy at the Border: To Get An U.S. Visa, You’ll Need to Give Up Your Social Media Handles
It’s long been talked about by the Trump administration and now it’s happening: give up your social media handles or stay out...
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357SecurityNew York School Will Start Using Facial Recognition
A school district in New York will become the first one in the United States to implement a facial recognition system district-wide...
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456MiscControversial UK Policy Will Allow The Police To Access Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Phones
A new police policy has recently made the headlines in the United Kingdom which states that rape victims will be asked to...
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1.7KSecurityThe Employees Who Listen in To Amazon’s Alexa Can Access User Addresses
Earlier this month, Bloomberg shared a report where it detailed that there are thousands of Amazon employees that listen to voice recordings...
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991SecurityAmazon Employees Do Listen In To Your Conversations With Alexa
There are a lot of people all over the globe who employ the use of smart speakers in their homes and Amazon’s...
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2.7KSecurityIllinois Supreme Court Passes Ruling Protecting Biometric Privacy
Back in 2008, the state of Illinois passed a Biometric information Privacy Act (BIPA), which protects people against the storage and collection...
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6.3KCES 2019HP Introduces Third-Gen HP Sure View at CES
HP has introduced a solid number of products at CES and one of them might right a bell of familiarity: the Sure...
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1.2KPhonesPrivacy-Oriented Smartphone Librem 5 Inching Closer to Launch, Ships Dev Kits
No doubt about it, 2018 has been the year of privacy concerns. That’s why it’s no surprise that there’s an ultra-private smartphone...
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1.8KSecurityNew Bug Forces Google To Shut Down Google+ Four Months Earlier Than Initially Planned
Google was supposed to shut down Google+ in August 2019 after major user data exposure, as well as minimal consumer interest but...
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1.6KMiscMultiple GDPR Complaints Just Filed Against Google’s Location Tracking
Months have passed since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in Europe, promising huge fines to companies that misuse...
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2.7KSecurityBeijing Is Not Backing Down From Its Social Rating System Project
A while ago, Beijing agreed to adopt a points program which would be assigning ratings for every resident. The decision was controversial,...
