Europe wants to go its own way on digital identity In its latest ambitious digital policy announcement, the European Union has proposed creating a framework for a “trusted and secure European e-ID” (aka digital…
TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’ A change to TikTok’s U.S. privacy policy on Wednesday introduced a new section that says the social video app “may collect biometric identifiers and…
Europe’s cookie consent reckoning is coming Cookie pop-ups getting you down? Complaints that the web is ‘unusable’ in Europe because of frustrating and confusing ‘data choices’ notifications that get in…
EU bodies’ use of US cloud services from AWS, Microsoft being probed by bloc’s privacy chief Europe’s lead data protection regulator has opened two investigations into EU institutions’ use of cloud services from U.S. cloud giants, Amazon and Microsoft, under…
Malware caught using a macOS zero-day to secretly take screenshots Almost exactly a month ago, researchers revealed a notorious malware family was exploiting a never-before-seen vulnerability that let it bypass macOS security defenses and run…
US towns are buying Chinese surveillance tech tied to Uighur abuses This story was reported in partnership with video surveillance news site IPVM. At least a hundred U.S. counties, towns, and cities have bought China-made…
Proton, the privacy startup behind e2e encrypted ProtonMail, confirms passing 50M users End-to-end encrypted email provider ProtonMail has officially confirmed it’s passed 50 million users globally as it turns seven years old. It’s a notable milestone…
Facebook ordered not to apply controversial WhatsApp T&Cs in Germany The Hamburg data protection agency has banned Facebook from processing the additional WhatsApp user data that the tech giant is granting itself access to…
CMU researchers show potential of privacy-preserving activity tracking using radar Imagine if you could settle/rekindle domestic arguments by asking your smart speaker when the room last got cleaned or whether the bins already got…
Peloton’s leaky API let anyone grab rider’s private account data Halfway through my Monday afternoon workout last week, I got a message from a security researcher with a screenshot of my Peloton account data….
Disqus facing $3M fine in Norway for tracking users without consent Disqus, a commenting plugin that’s used by a number of news websites and which can share user data for ad targeting purposes, has got…
What3Words sends legal threat to a security researcher for sharing an open-source alternative A U.K. company behind digital addressing system What3Words has sent a legal threat to a security researcher for offering to share an open-source software…