White House formally bans TikTok and WeChat in US
President Trump issued two executive orders on Thursday to prohibit all transactions with TikTok and WeChat in 45 days’ time.
President Trump issued two executive orders on Thursday to prohibit all transactions with TikTok and WeChat in 45 days’ time.
TikTok has seemingly taken Huawei’s position as the primary focus of US aggression in recent weeks, though the social media app is planning a data centre investment to ease European concerns.
Prospect of much tighter controls on social media sparks renewed interest in privacy tools.
Privacy authorities in the UK and Australia have announced a joint investigation into Clearview AI, a US firm which provides facial recognition technologies.
An investigation by Vice has revealed the market in stolen data counts government agencies as customers, as they seek to bypass data privacy laws.
Identity software company Okta has surveyed a bunch of people in the UK and found that we’re among the most willing to provide location data to help fight COVID-19.
While some might be looking for holes to pick in Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, the rules have laid the foundations of a safer and more consumer-empowered digital economy.
The general public is angry with authority today and it appears Amazon is attempting to capitalise on this sentiment with a shallow PR stunt.
Whether it’s important, depressing or just entertaining, the telecoms industry is always one which attracts attention.
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.
It has taken years for the technology and telecoms industry to take security seriously, and now we are at the beginning of the same story arc with privacy.
China’s parliament will legislate on privacy protection, while the state has vastly increased surveillance since the outbreak of COVID-19.
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has confirmed it is attempting to understand what impact potential US sanction directed towards Huawei would have on UK networks.
Max Schrems, one of the central figures in bringing down the EU-US Privacy Shield, has penned an open-letter slams the Irish Data Protection Commission for not dealing with Facebook appropriately.
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.
A German court has reprimanded the Federal Intelligence Service for mass surveillance which violates Basic Law and the privacy rights of its citizens.
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.
It was of course never going to admit it has been spying on customers, so Xiaomi has hit back at a Forbes article which suggests the smartphone manufacturer is eavesdropping.
Video conferencing platform Zoom has rushed out a bunch of new security features in response to serious concerns raised following the massive increase in its use.
The European Commission has unveiled guidelines for member states creating COVID-19 apps, with perhaps an attempt to prevent mission creep from private industry.
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