Designing Facebook warned over privacy risks of merging messaging platforms Feb 3, 2019 Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in Europe has asked the company for an “urgent briefing” regarding plans to integrate the underlying…
Designing Microsoft 365 gets new compliance & data privacy features Jan 30, 2019 Microsoft is introducing new ways for companies to protect and manage their data within Microsoft 365. The Seattle company today announced the…
Designing Facebook Created a Privacy and Data Use Business Hub Jan 29, 2019 Facebook marked Data Privacy Day Monday by introducing a new Privacy and Data Use Business Hub, a one-stop shop for resources that businesses can…
Artificial intelligence Artificial Intelligence Advances Threaten Privacy of Health Data Jan 5, 2019 January 4, 2019 — Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have created new threats to the privacy of people’s health data, a new University of…
Tech Industry Microsoft is Working on a Privacy Panel to Control Your Personal Data Jan 4, 2019 Corporations hold massive amounts of data on who you are. But most of them won’t let you see what they know. Microsoft is working on a project to add…
Cyber Security Federal data privacy bill introduced by 15 US senators Jan 2, 2019 The US doesn’t have a single data privacy law that applies to all fifty states. On Wednesday, a group of 15 US senators indicated it wanted to change…
Tech Industry Get a lifetime of online privacy from VPN Unlimited for under $30 Dec 31, 2018 If you’re still browsing the web without the protection of a Virtual Private Network (VPN), you may as well be handing out your log-in passwords on…
Cyber Security The privacy risks of compiling mobility data Dec 8, 2018 MIT researchers find that the growing practice of compiling massive datasets about people’s movement patterns for urban planning and development…
Social Media Facebook knew collection of Android call data Dec 7, 2018 Earlier this year, Facebook was reported to be collecting call data from Android users without their permission. Now, internal documents released by…
Cyber Security Privacy Search Engine Startpage.com Launches Anonymous Browsing Feature Dec 2, 2018 Privacy search engine Startpage.com has launched a “Anonymous View” feature. It protects users against tracking by acting as an anonymizing…