Business
Facebook will exclude 1.5 billion users from GDPR privacy protections
Europe's GDPR privacy protections are set to go into effect on May 25th and we've gotten indication from Facebook that the company plans to comply with it. While…
Privacy
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Privacy and personal data: how companies and governments collect and protect it, from Facebook password failures to surveillance and privacy bills.
Cybersecurity
Cambridge Analytica ex-CEO will no longer testify in UK
Cambridge Analytica's ex-CEO, Alexander Nix, has refused to testify before the U.K. Parliament's media committee. Committee Chairman Damian Collins announced the decision a day before his scheduled appearance,…
Cybersecurity
Cambridge Analytica may have used other quizzes to collect Facebook data
In a testimony today with a UK committee investigating the misuse of Facebook users' personal data, Brittany Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica employee, claimed in her spoken and…
Internet
France creating secure chat app to keep officials’ data within the country
Following Russian's ban, Telegram will soon be losing more customers. In this case, the French government is testing an encrypted messaging app that would keep officials' data on…
Apps
Starting tomorrow, you can sign up for Bumble without a Facebook account
In the wake of the whole Cambridge Analytica situation and Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony, the dating app Bumble is bringing more options to users for when they try…
Mobile
Meet the Samsung Galaxy J2 Pro, the smartphone that can’t connect to the internet
If you're hoping for a smartphone that won't connect to the internet and not rack up a big mobile data bill, then you're in luck. Samsung is hoping…
Business
Uber has agreed to expand settlement with FTC over 2016 data breach
Uber previously settled with the FTC over allegations that it didn't protect it's custoners' data back in 2014. Now only that, Uber was accused of misrepresenting how secure…
Companies
Facebook no longer opposing California privacy law
Facebook is apparently no longer opposing a proposed California ballot measure that's designed to protect the privacy of citizen's in the state, the company announced. The California Consumer…
Business
Mark Zuckerberg to testify at joint Senate hearing on April 10th
Not only does the US government want answers, the UK Parliament has asked Mark Zuckerberg to appear before its committee to answer questions regarding the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…
Cryptocurrency
Panera Bread apparently left millions of customer records exposed online
You can add Panera Bread to the list of companies that have left customer data exposed. Thanks to security researcher Dylan Houlihan, KrebsOnSecurity discovered that Panera Bread apparently left…
Facebook
Facebook has promised to delete unpublished videos it previously kept
Facebook has been secretly keeping videos you've recorded but never published, the company is now promising to completely delete them. Last week, we learned that a sister of…
Cybersecurity
Privacy groups are asking tech companies to sign user data ‘security pledge’
After the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data sharing that occurred where thousands of people were affected, a number of organizations including Color of Change, ACLU and Fight for the Future…
Security
New report says Cambridge Analytica has not deleted all the collected data
Cambridge Analytica has claimed that it has already deleted all the Facebook that it collected from 50 million users previously and even said that it was willing to…
Apple
Apple CEO Tim Cook criticizes privacy standards of Facebook
Speaking to MSNBC's Chris Hayes and Recode's Kara Swisher, Apple CEO Tim Cook provides his stance on Facebook's standard of privacy, Recode reports. In the interview, due to…
Facebook
Facebook is being sued for collecting call logs and text histories
Previously, news broke out that Facebook Messenger and Lite were scrapping call logs and text history from Android devices, the company said that it didn't do it in…