Watching television is one of the most common pastimes around the globe. Today, smart TVs are on the rise but did you ever consider how you might not just be watching alone? A new report from expert academicians from the US, UK, an…
Watching television is one of the most common pastimes around the globe. Today, smart TVs are on the rise but did you ever consider how you might not just be watching alone? A new report from expert academicians from the US, UK, an…
PayPal has made a new change to its policy for collecting user data and sharing it. Furthermore, the shocking part is that it’s set to default. The silent change is not uncommon in the world of tech today as every week we hear ab…
PayPal has made a new change to its policy for collecting user data and sharing it. Furthermore, the shocking part is that it’s set to default. The silent change is not uncommon in the world of tech today as every week we hear ab…
Cybernews examined 25 popular learning and education apps with millions of downloads on Google Play and found out that most of these apps can spy on users. There are many learning apps like Udemy, Coursera, Moodle and Duolingo that…
Reset your clocks: Meta has been hit with yet another privacy penalty in Europe. On Friday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced a reprimand and a €91 million fine — around $101.5 million at current exchange rates — …
The idea of digital privacy at the personal level is no less than a mirage: everyone thinks that their privacy is ensured, but it is not. The loopholes in the mobile phone networking systems exist, which have been the source of surv…
Mozilla Firefox is facing the heat after a nonprofit digital privacy group called Noyb issued a complaint against the company. This comes after a user stated that their privacy was being intercepted after the browser launched a post…
Telegram’s CEO is making it clear that the company is going to give in to requests for handing over users’ data if required for legal investigations. Pavel Durov stated that the platform will begin handing over IP addresses and ph…
The Tor Project is assuring users that this network is very safe after an investigative report spoke about the dangers related to the privacy tool and web browser. The company says the network is very safe and that all necessary …
Warrant canaries have been employed since the early years of this century by online service providers for protecting and retaining the privacy of their users. They became a permanent feature of online websites and platforms as a pot…
Google’s lead privacy regulator in the European Union has opened an investigation into whether or not it has complied with the bloc’s data protection laws in relation to use of people’s information for training generative AI . Speci…
According to the data by Surfshark, the US government requests to have user data from many big tech companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Meta. The data requested by the US Government and law enforcement agencies is almost dou…
Whatsapp initiated its view-once feature back in 2021 allowing people to send videos, pictures, and voice notes to be only seen one time. The feature is so advanced in protecting user privacy that a screenshot nor a screen recording…
Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO, was recently arrested and now the users of Telegram are concerned whether the CEO will give their data to law enforcement or not. Telegram has always been involved in giving a platform to criminals who d…
Telegram has quietly updated its policy to allow users to report private chats to its moderators following the arrest of founder Pavel Durov in France last month over “crimes committed by third parties” on the platform. The messag…
The advancement of generative AI tools has created a new problem for the internet: the proliferation of synthetic nude images resembling real people. On Thursday, Microsoft took a major step to give revenge porn victims a tool to st…
Clearview AI, the controversial U.S.-based, facial recognition startup that built a searchable database of 30 million images populated by scraping the internet for people’s selfies without their consent, has been hit with its largest…
