An alarming number of pre-installed Android apps are not included in Google Play which open the smartphone and tablet users to data exploitation by their device manufacturer. Read More
New report shows government agencies are regularly using cloud extraction tools as surveillance technology to analyze and extract private data from major cloud services. Read More
YouTube’s new privacy rules to meet COPPA compliance will require YouTuber to assign each new piece of content on the platform as being ‘for children’ or ‘not for children’. Read More
Apple has introduced significant changes to the security and privacy features in iOS 13 which could cause users to ignore important prompts and use unsafe workarounds to get rid of them. Read More
U.K. study on the collection and exploitation of personal data by Big Tech companies showed that Google's and Facebook's dominance in digital advertising could be harming competition in the market. Read More
China released new rules on data collection of personal information to prevent app developers from sharing user data without permission and collecting data not required for the functioning of app. Read More
Recent New York Times report sheds light on how companies are using smartphone tracking technology to collect, analyze, and resell location data to advertisers and marketing technology. Read More
Majority of the respondents in Amnesty International survey indicated that privacy concerns have changed their online behavior as there's no control over how companies use their personal data. Read More
After one year of reviewing data collection practices on smartphone apps, the Chinese government imposed new regulations on 41 apps that were found to be out of compliance. Read More
NIST face recognition study found that law enforcement systems have trouble accurately identifying faces of Native American, African American, women and people at extreme ends of the age spectrum. Read More
