GDPR
UK contact tracing app breaches GDPR, will store personal user data for 20 years
The apps have been a privacy nightmare from the start.
Apple whistleblower says Siri is always recording
The whistleblower says Siri listens even when you haven’t triggered her.
Grandmother ordered to remove photos of grandkids from Facebook under privacy protection laws
The judge says it violates the GDPR.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls for Western countries to regulate the internet
Regulation often cements the dominance of the biggest companies in the market.
MembersYouTube and RSS: moving your channel subscriptions to an RSS reader
?Ditching Google doesn’t mean you have to lose the convenient access to your YouTube subscriptions. Add them to your RSS reader.
Virgin Media ISP leak reveals some customers who requested porn to be unblocked
Privacy campaigners that said a porn ID system would lead to leaks have perhaps been vindicated.
Digital rights group suggests “meme ban” upload filters could clash with privacy laws
The EU’s baby may not be able to legally exist.
Judge rules US government can claim all proceeds from Edward Snowden’s book
Critics are seeing it as an act of retaliation.
Magic: The Gathering owner exposes thousands of player details online
Repors suggest they weren’t quick to respond to the issue when told about the exposure.
Doctors and nurses raise the alarm on Facebook’s WhatsApp being used to transmit patient medical information
Doctors and nurses routinely use the service to converse with other staff about patients.
Edward Snowden calls GDPR a “paper tiger”, says data collection is the real problem, not data protection
Snowden was speaking at a conference in Lisbon.