by Tyler | Jul 7, 2020 | Crime, Porn, Pre-Viral, privacy and security, Tech, Trending, Yahoo
On Monday, former Yahoo engineer Reyes Daniel Ruiz was sentenced to limited house arrest and probation after violating the privacy of thousands in search of explicit images.
by Tyler | Jun 28, 2020 | Apple, Asia, China, Economy, IPhone, privacy and security, Tech, TikTok, Trending
A report published on Friday suggests that the megapopular China-owned social media application TikTok was spying on users through a vulnerability in the latest version of Apple’s iOS smartphone firmware.
by Tyler | Feb 22, 2020 | Academic Insanity, Education, facial recognition, Politics, privacy and security, Tech, Trending, UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles, announced this week that they will not be moving forward with a plan to use facial recognition technology on campus. The decision comes ahead of a planned day of protests by students and advocacy groups that focus on privacy...
by Tyler | Feb 5, 2020 | Economy, Google, Masters of the Universe, privacy and security, Tech, Trending
Google announced this week that its data backup service, Google Takeout, experienced a technical issue that resulted in the leaking of thousands of private user videos.
by Tyler | Dec 6, 2019 | Asia, China, COPPA, data privacy, Politics, privacy and security, Social Media, Tech, TikTok, Trending
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is facing accusations that it violated child privacy laws and improperly collected data on young users, according to a new lawsuit.
by Tyler | Nov 30, 2019 | Amazon, Economy, Facebook, Google, Masters of the Universe, privacy and security, Smart Homes, smart speaker, Tech, Trending
The editor of the Mozilla Foundation’s Internet Health Report recently published a blog post on the website of the UK consumer association Which? that questions how privacy-focused the smart devices being pushed by the Masters of the Universe are.
