Four months ago, TikTok was caught harvesting and selling personal data of minor children without parents’ permission. The ByteDance-owned company later agreed to pay $92 million to settle the class-action lawsuits. The settlement, which lawyers in the case have called among […]
Crosspoint Capital Partners is a newly formed private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries. The firm has assembled a group of highly successful technology visionaries, investors, and operators to partner with foundational technology companies, transform the […]
Whether you like it or not, Google is tracking your every movement online. And it’s worse than we originally thought. Last month, we wrote about Big Tech Detective, a new browser extension that shows how Big Tech are invading your privacy […]
Every day, Google processes over 3.5 billion searches. Have you ever wondered how Google makes its money? The bulk of Google’s 162 billion dollar revenue in 2019 came from its proprietary advertising service, Google Ads. According to data from research firm […]
It seems like it was just yesterday when Facebook admitted to the inadvertent exposure of up to 87 million users’ information to the political analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2018. A year later, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fined Facebook $5 billion […]
With millions of people concerned about their privacy over the Internet, internet users are abandoning popular browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in favor of privacy-focused browsers like DuckDuckGo and Brave. However, the browser alone doesn’t offer you the […]
As part of its effort to protect the online privacy of its citizens, The European Union issued a new data protection law called The General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, or GDPR. The new EU law covers data protection and privacy […]
We first wrote about Clearview AI in January after the New York Times ran a story about the controversial AI startup, titled: “The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It.” According to the report, more than 600 law enforcement agencies, including […]
3D printing technology poses a “grave and growing threat” to individual privacy because of the potential for products to reveal private information about individuals, experts have warned. People could use cameras, laptops, or mobile phones to track and trace the origins […]
The Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) has fined Google €600,000 for failure to comply European rules on a person’s “right to be forgotten” online. The fine, which is the highest fine ever imposed by the Belgian authority, came after Google rejected […]
Privacy is dead! As part of its effort to show the level of social distancing taking place in various locations, tech giant Google announced the launch of a new website that uses anonymous location data collected from users of Google […]
We live in a time where we depend on technology for almost everything we do. Our lives are permeated with technology gadgets. We rise and sleep with them. It’s probably time for us to kiss our privacy and freedom goodbye. […]
Become a part of the new decentralized Marketplace, Particl. Submit your keys to be in with a chance of winning prizes. Particl is celebrating the launch of its Open Marketplace and is giving users the chance to win a Trezor […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Facebook over the company’s privacy policies. Facebook is fined with a record $5 billion fine and orders the orders the social giant to conduct a privacy oversight. The fine is the largest ever imposed […]
