So if you’ve thought that Joe Cadillic or I have been borderline paranoid when it comes to smart devices and what companies know about us and can do, consider this: This isn’t Orwellian. IT ISNT. pic.twitter.com/Pz0hKmjHtW — notdan ✸ (@notdan) August 19, 2017 On August 21, the solar eclipse will [Read More…]
Cecilia Kang reports: Uber has agreed to two decades of privacy and security audits to settle federal accusations that it did not keep promises to protect customer data. The Federal Trade Commission announced the settlement with Uber, a ride-sharing company, on Tuesday, ending an investigation that began in 2014 when [Read More…]
Salam Al Amir reports: The developer of an online game called Mariam, which Sharjah and Dubai Police warned against using, denied accusations that his game uses information provided by players as a privacy breach. On his Twitter account, Salman Al Harbi, a Saudi Arabian national, said that Mariam was just [Read More…]
The Korea Herald reports: CallApp, a free mobile app for caller identification and call blocking services, developed by an Israel-based tech startup, has been banned in South Korea for illegally collecting and mishandling users’ private data. The Korea Communications Commission said Monday that CallApp had been terminated from service in [Read More…]