Data privacy
Facebook to implement UK accounts switch after Brexit
That means that the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy charter will no longer apply to the data.
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Google launches strong encryption for Android messages
The move brings additional privacy and security to Google's messaging application, but comes amid rising complaints from law enforcement agencies around the world that strong encryption may enable criminals to hide their tracks.
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Germany fines H&M €35 mn for worker 'surveillance'
Company bosses at the group's service centre in Nuremberg were found to have delved too deeply into the private lives of their employees.
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Twitter says about 130 accounts were targeted in cyber attack this week
The FBI’s San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the hacking, with many Washington lawmakers also calling for an accounting of how it happened.
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Flaw in iPhone, iPads may have allowed hackers to steal data for years
The bug, which also exists on iPads, was discovered by ZecOps, a San Francisco-based mobile security forensics company, while it was investigating a sophisticated cyberattack against a client that took place in late 2019.
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Decade in Review: What the smartphone has wrought
Here are 10 ways the smartphone has made its mark over the decade.
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Zuckerberg to 'go to the mat' to fight breakup: report
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to 'go to the mat' to fight a government attempt to break up the social media giant, according to a report Tuesday based on a leaked audio recording.
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ANALYSIS: Why some nations want to take control of people’s data from Big Tech
Countries such as India, Indonesia and South Africa boycotted the so-called Osaka Track was because they had no opportunity to put their own interests about data into the document.
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400m Facebook users' phone numbers exposed in privacy lapse - reports
An exposed server stored 419 million records on users across several databases - including 133 million US accounts, more than 50 million in Vietnam, and 18 million in Britain, according to technology news site TechCruch.
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Facebook failed to warn users of known risks before 2018 breach: court filing
Facebook users suing the world’s largest social media network over a 2018 data breach say it failed to warn them about risks tied to its single sign-on tool, even though it protected its employees, a court filing on Thursday showed.
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Microsoft's latest privacy policy says vendors listen to voice data
A spokesperson for Microsoft said the company collects voice data to provide voice-enabled services for Skype and Cortana and sometimes uses vendors to assist in improving these services.
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ANALYSIS: Aging app kerfuffle shows fun trumps privacy
Consumers love FaceApp’s filter for making selfies look older or sexier, but its Russian ownership has suddenly sparked worries about potential data misuse.
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Facebook 'labels' posts by hand, posing privacy questions
The workers categorise items according to five 'dimensions,' as Facebook calls them.
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Facebook to clearly explain how it uses consumer data
Users will now see how Facebook uses their data to develop profiling activities and target advertising to finance itself, said the European Commission.
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Facebook removes exposed user records stored on Amazon's servers
Facebook said in its statement that it worked with Amazon to take down the databases once alerted to the issue.
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[LISTEN] What you need to know about sextortion
Talk Radio 702’s Bongani Bingwa spoke to Mike Bolhuis, a specialist private investigator, about sextortion.
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Facebook has not fully answered questions on data privacy - UK lawmakers
The parliamentary committee says it will once again ask for the missing details on data privacy and fake news.
