UK Parliament closes TikTok account as MPs warn over security
The UK parliament has closed its TikTok account one week after opening it as MPs raised security concerns over China in an urgent letter.
The UK parliament has closed its TikTok account one week after opening it as MPs raised security concerns over China in an urgent letter.
A new ‘data adequacy agreement’ between the UK and South Korea should provide a significant boost to trade between the two countries.
US operator group T-Mobile is using information about apps downloaded onto phones to help target advertising, which poses questions about user privacy.
Following a hack last year, US operator T-Mobile apparently tried to buy back the stolen data, a move which backfired as the data remained on sale nonetheless.
The European Commission has announced new laws to improve data privacy and protection, and trade body ETNO approves.
US internet giant Google has defended a class action suit in the UK but still has to hand over billions to the EU.
There is a mounting battle of wills in the US between its tech giants and its state apparatus over who gets to exploit its population more.
In the middle of the ‘Russiagate’ debacle, the Trump administration reportedly forced Apple to provide data from the accounts of Democrat politicians.
Google has previewed the next version of Android which, once more, claims to empower the user to adapt and secure their device experience.
Messaging app Signal created an Instagram ad campaign that would have specified the personal information used to target it.
Security services in seven allied countries want to be able to hack into digital products that protect their user’s privacy through end-to-end encryption.
The supposed scandal around the data analytics supplied by Cambridge Analytics was manufactured by people with a political agenda.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that it’s illegal for countries indiscriminately collect electronic communications data, unless they have a really good reason.
Drawing on his considerable experience in such matters, Facebook’s Vice President for Global Affairs and Communications has fine-tuned his company’s position on data transfers.
Facebook is up in arms over Apple’s plan to let users opt out of sharing their Web-usage data with the social network.
Internet giant Google has had the nerve to position itself as the defender of individual interests over corporate ones in Australia.
Law firm Boies Schiller Flexner has filed a $5 billion class action lawsuit against Google in the Northern District of California for continuing to collect data while privacy mode is activated.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit against Google for what he describes as ‘deceptive and unfair’ methods to secure valuable personal data.
A thriving economy and low levels of unemployment might have been the focal point of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, pre-pandemic, but fighting the ‘red under the bed’ might have to do now.
In a move which is more suited to an authoritarian state, the US Senate has voted to extend the powers of intelligence authorities to search browser history without a court warrant.
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