Privacy April 28, 2022Twitter DMs Should Have End-to-End Encryption, Says Elon Musk Twitter Inc.'s (TWTR) new owner Elon Musk has called for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages (DM) on the microblogging platform. Musk made the suggestion on Thursday,...
Privacy April 25, 2022California Residents Raise Concerns Over Smart Water Meters Cities across California, like Oceanside and San Diego, are transitioning to automated water metering systems in a bid to promote water conservation. However, some residents of...
Privacy April 12, 2022New Zealand Government Websites and Portal Inaccessible A swathe of New Zealand government websites were inaccessible on Tuesday, with several sites displaying security warnings to visitors. This included websites of the Parliament,...
Privacy April 11, 2022Meta to Implement New Measures to Counter Doxing Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta has announced it will soon prevent its users from sharing "publicly available" private addresses. This move is in line with its...
Privacy April 8, 2022Cutting-Edge Encryption Methods Could End the Privacy Dilemma One of the world's biggest technological hurdles is the inability to safely and ethically share data. This issue hampers progress in all kinds of spheres like detecting...
PrivacyLegislation April 7, 2022New EU Digital Strategy Sets Eyes Firmly on Big Tech Gatekeepers Concerns about how to enforce data should not stop the EU's attempts to curb Big Tech's domination, Stanford University Cyber Policy Center international policy director Marietje...
CybercrimePrivacy April 6, 2022Former Employee Stole Cash App Customer Data Block Inc. has revealed that its payments service Cash App suffered a data breach last year. The company said that a former employee downloaded reports which contained a trove of...
Privacy April 4, 2022Yandex Eats Breach Unveils Data of Russian Secret Police Following a massive data breach, Russian tech giant Yandex could find itself facing the ire of the Russian government. Its food delivery app, Yandex Eats, faced a data leak last...
PrivacyLegislation March 25, 2022U.S. and EU Form Breakthrough Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework The U.S. and the EU have reached a new preliminary deal that could provide major improvements to how companies transfer data and personal information across the Atlantic, The Wall...