data collection
What does ‘Personal Data’ mean in the world of ‘Information Security’
Data Privacy has become a hot topic in recent times and this has made people begin to think and understand what it means to them in a real-time world and what consequences it can fetch if left unseen. The recent FaceApp controversy and the Facebook’s indulgence in Cambridge Analytica data scandal are two infamous examples […]
Facebook rejects a new data security policy of Germany
Germany on Thursday announced that it will impose new restrictions on ways Facebook collects data from users prevailing in the region. But within few hours of this announcement, the world leading social media giant said that it is going to reject the data protection policy of Germany and will appeal to the court by the […]
More than 773 million email ids and passwords leaked online
In what could be called as the biggest data dump in the online history, more than 773 million email IDs and passwords consuming around 87GB of storage space were reported to have leaked last week. Titled as “Collection #1” the data dump which is been hosted on Kim Dotcom’s Mega cloud servers consists the disclosure […]
