Data
Apple offers a website to curb data privacy concerns among its users
Apple Inc. which has always adhered in respecting the privacy of its users has now launched a website which allows its users to track down the data collected by the iPhone maker so far. On Wednesday, the iPhone giant launched a website with the URL “privacy dot Apple dot com” which allows its users to […]
Facebook says only 30m users fell vulnerable to the recent Cyber Attack
Facebook, the worlds leading social media giant has made it official that only 30 million users fell vulnerable to the recent Cyber Attack disclosed two weeks ago. The Mark Zuckerberg led company says that the Sept’18 Cyber attack exposed data of only 30m users unlike 50m as reported earlier and added that there was “ […]
Google kills Google + after bug exposes 496,000 user details
Google has finally decided to shut down the business of Google + after a software bug in its servers exposed critical user data to third-party developers. As a result of the data exposure of nearly 496,951 accounts, the business unit of Alphabet Inc. has decided to disable the consumer functionality of the service for the […]
Will Blockchain Technology put an end to monetization of Google’s User Data
George Glider, an economist and a technology critic feels that Google could soon lose the game of making money from its user data, if in the case; the technology of Blockchain takes the world. The technologist revealed these insights in his latest book titled ‘Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise […]
New Internet startup to offer more Data Privacy controls
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of World Wide Web is all set to unveil a ‘New Internet’ which promises to give users full control on the data they share with other internet services providers like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Inrupt, an app based web search system will allow users to regulate what personal info they would […]
Cambridge Analytica data scandal makes 25% of young adults in America delete Facebook app
Did you delete the Facebook app from your phone or tablet recently? If yes, then you are not the only one who has done so due to privacy concerns. A survey conducted by Pew Research says that nearly 25% of young adults in America have deleted their respective accounts from the Facebook platform after the […]
Equifax Cyber Attack faces a lawsuit from Canada Citizen
In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that a cyber attack on its database has exposed sensitive info of more than 143 million of its American consumers. The leaked data includes social security numbers, driver licenses, and phone numbers as well. Daniel Thalheimer, 46, a citizen of Duncan, Canada has now filed a class action lawsuit against […]
Google collects this data from its users
A research conducted by Vanderbilt University on Google search engine’s data collection activity has found that the internet juggernaut collects two-thirds of data through passive means from its users. This includes information from apps running in the background of Android devices, Youtube, Google Photos, Maps, Chrome browsers, and even in incognito browsers. Therefore, to all […]
Orbitz: Why You Can’t Secure Data in the Dark
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. On March 1, 2018, Orbitz discovered that a malicious party may have stolen information from one of its legacy platforms. The compromised platform housed Orbitz customer information such as mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and full names, as well as details about nearly 900,000 payment cards. This […]
Your Data Is Still Leaving the Building
This post was originally published here by Rich Campagna. Bitglass recently hit its 5 year anniversary as a company. So much has happened during those 5 years that it seems like nothing is the same. Our team has grown by >20x. We gone from zero to hundreds of customers, across every major vertical. We expanded […]
