Here you will find all the articles with the tag: user data privacy.
On Monday, Facebook temporarily kept at bay a collective lawsuit valued at up to 3 billion pounds following allegations that the social media company took advantage of its dominant position to make money from its users' data. The London tribunal listening to the case gave the claimants’ lawyer... Read more
29 days ago
Ireland's privacy watchdog is demanding answers from Twitter about a data scraping incident that leaked user information of millions of Twitter accounts. Last August, Twitter acknowledged that hackers took advantage of a system flaw that has since been repaired to access profiles linked to email... Read more
4 months ago
After making concessions to address concerns over the use of seller data, US retail giant Amazon may be able to settle two EU antitrust probes by the end of the year, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. If it manages to conclude the probes, Amazon escapes a fine of up to 10 percent... Read more
4 months ago
Two iOS security researchers have discovered that Apple's claim of protecting iPhone users' privacy is far from true. A Twitter post by Tommy Mysk and Tala Haj Bakry alleges that Apple tracks users via an identifier referred to as 'Direct Services Identifier' (DSID). Apple requests analytica... Read more
4 months ago
Meta has reportedly fired several employees for fraudulent practices. CNBC reports that Meta has let off over two dozen employees and contractors in the past year for inappropriately gaining control of accounts and taking bribes. Insiders told The Wall Street Journal that several of those sac... Read more
4 months ago
Interserve was fined £4.4 million by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after a breach of personal employee data. In 2019, UK-based outsourcing firm Interverse was faced with several cyberattacks that compromised the personal information of 113,000 employees. From March 18th to D... Read more
5 months ago
Three sources familiar with the matter told POLITICO that the White House is set to issue its long-anticipated executive order on transatlantic data flows next week. The new Privacy Shield is intended to address European complaints about US surveillance methods, and it may be signed and announc... Read more
6 months ago
DataGuard raised $61 million in capital to enhance its SaaS services, enabling clients to improve data privacy and protection. Numerous businesses are facing multi-million dollar fines due to their negligence in maintaining data privacy and protection. Regulation is an unquestionable part of the... Read more
6 months ago
Meta has been sued for purportedly creating a secretive work-around for Apple's iPhone consumer privacy rules launched last year. A class-action complaint was filed by two Facebook users in federal court on Wednesday. The users allege that Meta dodged Apple’s 2021 privacy protocols and violate... Read more
6 months ago
The ÆPIC leak CPU bug spills users' sensitive and confidential data in seconds from Intel SGX enclaves. Intel's latest CPUs contain a major vulnerability that enables attackers to achieve encryption keys as well as other private data protected by its SGX. This cutting-edge feature works as a va... Read more
7 months ago
