A complaint has been filed by a privacy-preserving group against Mozilla for "default tracking" users with its new PPA feature as it felt most users aren't smart enough.
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Intel will now enable telemetry or user data collection by default on its Windows Arc drivers. Hence, the component will now gather details like website categories visited, among others.
Last month, Microsoft silently pushed an update KB5021751 to Windows systems. The company has now added more details regarding the user information that it collected with this update.
With the action under its Health Breach Notification Rule being enforced for the first time, the FTC has penalized GoodRx with a $1.5M fine. The proposed order is yet to be approved by federal court.
Half a billion phone numbers of WhatsApp users is reportedly up for sale on a well-known hacking community. The dataset contains user data from 84 countries, with over 32 million numbers from the US.
The Indian government has proposed a new law which could grant the administration sweeping powers to bypass end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and intercept messages and calls on platforms such as WhatsApp.
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Meta and Google have collectively been fined $72 million in South Korea for not clearly informing users prior to collecting their data to analyze their interests and behaviors to display custom ads.
According to a leaked document, Facebook engineers have admitted that Facebook itself doesn't know what it does with its own users' data and where it goes after entering its servers.
EU has formally decided to adopt the Digital Services Act, a collection of new laws that attempts to reign in user profiling for targeted ads and seeks more transparency on content algorithms.
The European Union and the U.S. have reached a provisional agreement over the transatlantic data transfer, which could help companies collect and process user data, possibly with better safeguards.
Per the Reserve Bank of India, Microsoft has been sharing the data of customers of Indian banks that utilize Office 365, in order to comply with demands from U.S. intelligence agencies.
A couple of weeks ago, Facebook told Congress that 61 companies were given access to user data beyond a cutoff date. One of these has now been revealed as the Russian internet company, Mail.Ru.
Switzerland-based storage provider Tresorit has released its first transparency report. The document covers the firm's complex legal framework and user requests from September 2013 to November 2017.
The messaging service was asked to comply with the government's order of sharing the user data. The company has been fined for 800,000 rubles ($14,000) but, its founder intends to fight the ruling.
News aggregation platform Reddit has released, for the third year in a row, its Transparency Report. Covering 2016, it details requests received for user data and content removal, and more.
Online audio distribution platform SoundCloud has announced a change in privacy policy effective May 17, 2017. Moving forward, data from users in the US will be controlled by its US subsidiary.
In what seemingly goes against the precedent set by Microsoft's recent stoush against the US Government, Google is preparing to appeal a court order to release emails stored on an offshore server.
It's been a tough year for Microsoft on many fronts but perhaps none more important than the privacy of cloud data. Now, it seems the embattled company has support from an extensive cohort of allies.
Yahoo was alerted to a flaw in its servers by researchers scanning for Shellshock vulnerabilities, but said that attackers used a different vulnerability to compromise its servers.
Facebook is trying to defend the changed policies of Moves, saying there is a difference between "sharing" and "commingling" user data. Though their defending statements may be too late to make.
Microsoft has been ordered by a US district court to release a customer's emails and related data which is stored on a server in Dublin, Ireland but the company is planning to oppose the order.
