Tag: Privacy
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New iOS update for IPhones will require app makers to tell consumers about information they track
Apple moving forward on app privacy, despite push back from critics and advertisers
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Facebook says Apple Privacy Moves Hurt Small Businesses
Facebook says Apple privacy moves hurt small businesses.
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Singapore’s world-first face scan plan sparks privacy fears
Singapore, Oct 18 (AFP/APP):Singapore will become the world’s first country to use facial verification in its national ID scheme, but privacy advocates are alarmed by what they say is an intrusive system vulnerable to abuse. From next year, millions of people living in the city-state will be able to access government agencies, banking services and…
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Wacky indoor Amazon drone takes on privacy skeptics
Washington, Oct 2 (AFP/APP):It could be the wackiest product yet from Amazon — a tiny indoor drone which buzzes around people’s homes as a security sentry. The introduction of the Ring Always Home Cam planned for 2021 has opened up fresh debate on the potential for intrusive surveillance and privacy infringement. Amazon says the tiny…
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Big Data is Watching You
Although Cambridge Analytica has been dismembered, there are organisations with similar manipulating powers that remain intact and can still partner with political bodies to orchestrate similar wide-scale exploitation, which has sparked the notion that “data rights are legal rights.”