Recent FTC settlement with the popular Flo Fertility Tracking app came with a warning from the agency to other health apps that engage in questionable data sharing practices.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Newly discovered set of DNS vulnerabilities puts a wide range of devices at risk, with an estimate of millions impacted. This raises fresh questions about the inherent security of DNS.
UK CMA Plans to Investigate Google Chrome’s “Privacy Sandbox” for Potential Anticompetitive Behavior
The "Privacy Sandbox" initiative proposed by Google could bring major changes to the online advertising industry, disabling third-party cookies entirely in the Chrome browser. Could this be considered anticompetitive?
Some of Ring’s products will now be getting end-to-end encryption for the first time, six years after the company's flagship doorbell camera product first launched.
A recent privacy policy update from WhatsApp appeared to be forcing users to agree to sharing of personal data with Facebook. WhatsApp has clarified exactly what will be shared.
The idea of immunity passports demonstrating proof of a COVID vaccine to move about is being discussed by a broad variety of both government and business organizations.
New privacy labels that Apple requires are revealing some major differences between competing messaging apps, best illustrated by setting Signal next to the voracious Facebook Messenger.
A new data sharing policy is universalizing personal information among Facebook products. WhatsApp informed users of this change in a privacy policy update, which did not provide any means of opting out.
The March 2020 SolarWinds hack, which was not discovered for months, has formally been blamed on Russian hackers by a coalition of US intelligence agencies.
Singapore’s early rollout of contact tracing included one of the world’s first mobile apps for this purpose, TraceTogether. Voluntary public uptake based on trust in government was key, but that trust may be shaken.
