Privacy
The cost of free broadband may be greater than we realise
Ian Hill, global director of cyber security at construction firm BAM, argues that Labour's plans for free broadband poses grave risks to privacy and internet freedoms
WeWork customers' confidential contract and bank account details left exposed on GitHub
The issue impacted a subset of WeWork customers based in Europe, India, and China
Google to restrict advertiser access to user data over privacy concerns
The search giant has decided against including contextual content categories in the bid requests it sends to buyers
Microsoft to apply California's Consumer Privacy Act across the US
California's new privacy law was approved in June 2018 - in the teeth of opposition from internet companies
Facebook wielded user data as a bargaining tool, according to leaked internal documents
The Facebook documents were leaked from a civil suit against Facebook
Ex-Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabian government
One former Twitter employee arrested on Tuesday in Seattle - form Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos warns that there will be more
Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt start-up secures £5m investment to help protect users' data online
The idea behind Berners-Lee's Inrupt is to flip the rules of who controls data on the web
Compulsory Chinese government propaganda app grants authorities 'superuser' access to smartphones
China's ruling party has made it compulsory for members to download and use the app
China to make it compulsory to provide a facial scan when getting new phone numbers or internet access
The new rule will apply from December and will no doubt be used to support the country's draconian 'social credit' system
Dozens of Amazon workers watch footage recorded by Cloud Cams home security cameras
Some clips also show intimate moments of Cloud Cam users
Solid's Ruben Verborgh: 'We need competition based on quality of service not on data harvesting'
Solid developer and inrupt advisor on progress with Berners-Lee's vision of re-decentralising the web.
US and UK sign deal to speed up electronic evidence collection from tech firms in serious criminal cases
The current process for receiving evidence can take years
European Court: Websites need to obtain explicit users' consent before tracking them with cookies
Planet49 was accused of using a pre-checked consent box as an authorisation to store cookies on users' machines
Another unprotected server leaking personal data of millions of Ecuadorian citizens uncovered by researchers
Latest Ecuadorian data breach attributed to company called DataBook using the data on a an unsecured server
Facebook belatedly suspends 'tens of thousands' of apps in privacy probe following Cambridge Analytica affair
Facebook has filed lawsuits against a number of app developers over data expropriation
Smart TVs are leaking data to companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon, researchers warn
Ad trackers 'pervasive' across Roku and Amazon set-top boxes
Ecuador's authorities arrest senior executive of data analytics firm Novaestrat over massive data breach
Data breach left the personal details of almost all Ecuadorian citizens exposed on the internet
Millions of medical scans and records lying unprotected on the internet, claim researchers
Medical details of around 24 million patients are freely accessible on the internet, warn researchers
Unsecured database of 16.6 million Ecuadorean citizens found by security researchers
The comprehensive personal details of Ecuador's citizens - encompassing financial information - included an entry for President Maduro
How Google uses secret 'push pages' to share personal details with advertisers
Combined with tracking cookies supplied by Google, push pages enable organisations to identify individual web browsers, claims Brave's Johnny Ryan
Google accused of using secret web pages to leak users' personal data to advertising firms
The evidence in support of the claim was submitted to Ireland's Data Protection Commission by Brave's Johnny Ryan
Facial recognition system on King's Cross Estate has been switched off, says site developer
Data processed via the facial recognition system was regularly deleted, claims King's Cross Estate
Google proposes alternative plan to improve web privacy - while keeping the ad tech industry onside
Google's new initiative called 'Privacy Sandbox' aims to boost users' privacy on the web
Facebook hired outside contractors to transcribe Messenger audio clips
Facebook hired contractors to listen-in and transcribe Messenger voice chats to check its AI algorithms were accurately interpreting audio snippets
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