DNA analysis service GEDmatch suffers breach exposing 1.3 million DNA profiles
Hackers opted everyone in for sharing their DNA profile with law enforcement
Apple warns that closing your MacBook with a camera cover could damage the display
A sticky note seems ideal
Clearview AI faces more scrutiny from UK and Australian privacy commissioners
It seems the startup has spent more time fending off investigators than actually developing its software
Facebook and Google-backed ad firms are objecting to Apple's new warnings on user tracking
iOS 14 is a nightmare for European advertisers
Facebook accidentally shared user data with at least 5,000 apps, even after the 90-day cutoff date
Another day, another privacy issue with Facebook
Spies can eavesdrop remotely by analyzing a light bulb's vibrations
Is your light bulb ratting you out?
IBM says it will no longer make "general purpose" facial recognition tech
Not that it was bringing much revenue, anyway
Many users don't change their passwords following a data breach
Years of education has seemingly fallen on deaf ears
Facebook doesn't want to be an "arbiter of truth," but will verify the identities of people behind popular Pages
Posts from unverified Pages will have limited reach
Arizona AG lawsuit alleges Google illegally tracked Android users
'The company is continuing to find misleading ways to obtain information and use it for profit'
As GDPR turns two, some are doubting the Irish Data Protection Commission's ability to enforce rules
Companies like Google and Facebook could face big fines
Face mask selfies are being used to retrain facial recognition systems
Companies are scrambling to retrain facial recognition systems
Facebook is adding location data to posts from Facebook and Instagram accounts with large audiences
Facebook said it wants to be more transparent
Twitter isn't allowed to reveal the government's requests for data
They can't even specify the number of requests
Clearview AI's cybersecurity in question after researchers discover unsecured repository
Company assets, intellectual properties, and 70,000 surveillance video were found exposed
Twitter will share more of your data with Facebook and Google to advertise its app on those platforms
European users are still out of reach unless they opt in
Zoom enables passwords and waiting rooms to thwart Zoom bombing
The software has always had these features but they were disabled by default
Zoom skyrockets to 200 million users, puts 90-day hold on features to address security flaws
Promises to keep the community in the loop with weekly webinars
Cloudflare's high-speed 'WARP' VPN is coming to macOS and Windows this year
In the form of a public beta
Zoom found leaking personal user data, could also facilitate stealing your Windows sign-in credentials
You could potentially be video-called by strangers
US officials are using location data from mobile ads to map the spread of Covid-19
Following similar moves in other countries around the world
Zoom updates iOS app to stop it from sending data to Facebook
iPhone/iPad details, location and ad identifiers were being shared with Facebook, even for non-users of the social media platform
Safari will now block third-party cookies by default, delete a site's local storage after seven days
Offline web apps apparently don't matter for WebKit
WhatsApp could soon get self-destructing messages
The privacy feature was previously being tested for group chats