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The attack threatens users with location-tracking, DoS, fake notifications and more.
Why Are Users Surprised by Data Slurping?Why are we surprised about the amount and sensitivity of data that mobile apps collect? The online industry has never been forthright about it. That's why...
Three new attacks can be used to track the location and intercept calls of phone users connected to 4G and 5G cellular networks, researchers from Purdue University and The University of Iowa have...
Consumer groups voiced dismay Friday after a US Senate panel considering privacy legislation scheduled a largely industry-packed witness list for an upcoming hearing. read more
Unsealed court documents show that Facebook referred to big-spending kids as "whales" - a term borrowed from the casino industry.
Cybersecurity concerns, along with U.S. economic growth, are the two top drivers anticipated to spur overall U.S. tech industry growth in 2019. Data privacy remains at the center of the sector’s...
Mexico’s privacy watchdog said Wednesday that the federal Attorney General’s Office stonewalled it for more than a year as it tried to investigate the government’s use of powerful Israeli spyware...
Committee Demands Answers About Consumers' Complaint Filed With FTCA Congressional committee is demanding Facebook provide answers concerning a complaint filed with the FTC alleging misleading...
An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but...
A US investigation into privacy violations by Facebook could result in a record fine running to billions of dollars, media reports said Friday. read more