A court in Germany has ruled that Facebook’s default privacy settings and some of its terms and conditions breached local laws. The Berlin court passed judgement late last month but the verdict was only made public this week. Read More
Category: data protection
Digital minister’s app lands on data watchdog’s radar after privacy cock-up
The Matt Hancock app, which launched this week and quickly ran into a storm of criticism for displaying an unfortunately lax attitude to privacy, has caught the attention of the UK’s data watchdog. Awkward. Read More
US military reviewing tech use after Strava privacy snafu
The U.S. military has responded to privacy concerns over a heatmap feature in the Strava app which displays users’ fitness activity — and has been shown exposing the location of military facilities around the world — by saying it’s reviewing the rules around usage of wireless devices and apps by its personnel. Read More
Facebook starts polishing its privacy messaging ahead of GDPR
As the May 25 deadline for compliance with the EU’s updated privacy framework fast approaches Facebook is continuing to PR the changes it’s making to try to meet the new data protection standard — and steer away from the specter of fines that can scale as high as 4% of a company’s global turnover. Read More
Facebook to roll out global privacy settings hub — thanks to GDPR
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has said major privacy changes are coming to the platform later this year, as it prepares to comply with the European Union’s incoming data protection regulation. Read More
WTF is GDPR?
Within a matter of months, the General Data Protection Regulation will apply across the EU and business processing citizens’ data will need to be sure they’re compliant. We explain the major changes incoming and take a look at some possible impacts… Read More
UK’s Carphone Warehouse fined nearly $540k for 2015 hack
The UK’s data watchdog has handed mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse a £400,000 fine — just shy of the £500k maximum the regulator can currently issue — for security failings attached to a 2015 hack that compromised the personal data of some three million customers and 1,000 employees. Read More
Concerns raised over new ethics regime for UK public sector data processing
Health data privacy advocacy group MedConfidential believes ministers are trying to sneak in a data protection law carveout, in order to hand politicians the power to judge the ethics of — for example — applying AI to taxpayer funded medical data-sets. Read More
The light and dark of AI-powered smartphones
As more smartphones get on device AI processing powers it could support a new range of advanced consumer features. But what kind of value exchange might be required for mobile users to tap into these touted ‘AI smarts’? Read More
Netflix reminds everyone it’s creeping on them
This week Netflix trumpeted its users collectively streaming one billion hours of content weekly in 2017.
Also this week: Netflix reminded its ~110M global subscribers that while they’re paying to watch the content available on its platform, Netflix is busy watching what they’re watching… Read More
The menopause is on our roadmap, says Clue’s Ida Tin
Femtech startup Clue is looking at expanding the feature-set of its period tracking app to attract women outside its current younger demographic. Read More
View More The menopause is on our roadmap, says Clue’s Ida TinUber data breach “raises huge concerns”, says UK watchdog
The fallout from Uber’s disclosure yesterday of a massive data breach affecting 57 million users and drivers that it concealed for a year continues: The UK’s data protection watchdog has put out a strongly worded statement saying the company’s announcement “raises huge concerns around its data protection policies and ethics”. Read More