Collaborate Disseminate
New patents suggest Facebook’s going to soon know when you’re asleep, when you’re awake, and is going to have a good guess at when you’re going to die. Continue reading Are you happy with this technology that Facebook’s developing?
According to new rules recently published by Apple, iOS app developers must refrain from creating a database of the information gleaned from users’ Contacts and to sell it on. Wealth of private information The information contained in Contacts ca… Continue reading Apple prohibits developers from using, selling users’ Contacts
Customers of hotels and guest houses listed on Booking.com were the target of a recent phishing scam launched by cybercriminals to steal user information, writes The Sun. Users first received WhatsApp and text messages instructing them to change their … Continue reading Booking.com partners, customers hit by phishing scam
On Sunday, The New York Times revealed that Facebook has been providing mobile phone and tablet vendors access to user (and users’ friends’) data even though the users did not consent to it and even if they configured their Facebook setting… Continue reading Facebook gave user data access to Chinese mobile device makers, too
Travel website Rail Europe has informed customers that their lifelong dream to see the sights of Europe by train may have turned into a nightmare. Real Europe North America Inc (RENA) is writing to customers to inform them that it has discovered eviden… Continue reading Rail Europe data breach lasted almost three months
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on March 21 that the company would conduct an audit to identify suspicious applications that may have exploited user data. So far, 200 applications have been detected and… Continue reading Facebook removes 200 suspicious apps
Repeat after me. If you’re still arguing about which is the better smartphone operating system for security – iOS or Android – you’re having the wrong debate. The big data security issue with smartphones is not so much with what… Continue reading Drupe app removed from Google Play store after photos and messages leaked publicly
There is terrible news for all OnePlus lovers.
Your OnePlus handset, running OxygenOS—the company’s custom version of the Android operating system, is collecting way more data on its users than it requires.
A recent blog post published today by security researcher Christopher Moore on his website detailed the data collection practice by the Shenzhen-based Chinese smartphone maker, revealing
Continue reading OnePlus Secretly Collects Way More Data Than It Should — Here’s How to Disable It
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Chinese authorities have announced the arrest of around 22 distributors working as Apple distributors as part of a $7 million operation, who stole customers’ personal information from an internal Apple database and illegally sold it to Chinese black market vendors.
According to a report from Chinese media, this underground network reportedly consisted
Continue reading 22 Apple Distributors Arrested for Selling Customers’ Data in $7.4 Million
If the death of online privacy rules wasn’t enough for Internet Service Providers and advertisers to celebrate, Verizon has planned to pre-install spyware on customers’ Android devices in order to collect their personal data.
The telecom giant has partnered with Evie Launcher to bring a new application called ‘AppFlash’ — a universal search bar that will come pre-installed on the home screens
Continue reading Verizon to pre-install a ‘Spyware’ app on its Android phones to collect user data