Tag: privacy
Three quarters of mobile apps harvesting personal data unnecessarily, claims study
Nearly 87% of Android apps and 60% of Apple’s iOS versions seek access to personal mobile data unrelated to their performance Bumble is the UK’s most intrusive popular app, collecting 44% more data than it needs to work and requesting the most permissions to access device features Fellow dating app Tinder and social media favourite…
Will Facebook’s first generation smart glasses be a success?
Facebook is testing the water with its first-generation smart glasses. But will they be a big hit? Rupantar Guha, Associate Project Manager for Thematic Research at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, gives his opinion... “Facebook’s first-generation smart glasses are a cautious move to test the waters before rivals such as Apple enter the…
3 Risky Scenarios For Your Identity Online
Since we use real data to create our digital identity (social security number, name, address, email addresses, and social media channels), we can see it is a bridge between the virtual and the real world. Now, most online users know not to make sensitive information public. Still, this can’t be helped when working with services…
REVEALED: Top 20 companies which collect most data
In light of Google pushing its Chrome cookie ban to 2023, a brand new study by pCloud has researched the websites with the most cross-site trackers to analyse which popular businesses are tracking you. When you browse from website to website, cross-site trackers follow you, collecting data on where you’ve been and what you’ve done. This…
Tech Digest daily roundup: WhatsApp launches privacy ad campaign
WhatsApp has launched its first major privacy-focused advertising campaign in the UK. It follows a customer backlash against changes to its terms and conditions, announced earlier this year. The platform also said it is standing firm against pressure from governments, including the UK, to compromise on the way it encrypts messages. Authorities should "demand more…
Do You Read Privacy Policies? Here Is Why You Should
Most users understand very little about how companies manage their data. However, almost every netizen has come across companies’ privacy policies one way or the other. With concerns regarding the privacy and security of personal data rising, it’s all the more critical that we all take the time to read them. It's a big-data world…
Brits increased concerned by privacy, claims research
Confined to our homes for the past year, we've become more reliant on the internet than ever before for everything from working to shopping. Yet despite, or perhaps because, of this, many of us are increasingly conscious about guarding our privacy online. Interested in technology, OnBuy’s Home Automation Department analysed the latest findings from MindShare,…
Privacy fears risk widening digital divide, study suggests
Heightened privacy fears are putting more non-internet users off and risk worsening the digital divide, new research has warned. Most people who are not online do so because they are not interested, according to the University of Oxford. But a growing number have cited anxiety about widely-reported privacy issues, as well as a lack of…
Facebook Pop-Up Cafés to offer free privacy checks
Facebook is launching its first pop-up cafés aimed at encouraging users to personalise their privacy settings. The firm is opening pop-ups in London and Manchester, which will offer a free drink to visitors who choose to be guided through a privacy check-up on the site, with further branches to open in Brighton, Edinburgh and Cardiff…
Mozilla Firefox boss warns that public turning on tech firms over privacy
Public opinion is turning against big technology firms over their mishandling of user data, the head of non-profit tech firm Mozilla has warned. Mitchell Baker said the public realisation of how much data was being gathered by tech giants such as Facebook and Google and how that data could have an impact on democracy was…
