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Recent information has come to light that Facebook planned to use its Android app to track the location of its customers. This was to allow political advertising and invites to dating sites to ‘single’ people. One would have thought (given recent events) that Facebook would have been more careful with user data.

Company apologises after bug meant users were able to log into accounts of…

Sandy Parakilas, who worked at Facebook before opposing its use of personal data,…

Name, address, email address, telephone number, payment details and Ticketmaster login details were…

Mozilla is testing a new tool that securely checks to see if users’…

The UK police are using technology and copious amounts of data to predict crime. Thousands of anonymised reports of previous offences allow police to be deployed where crime is predicted to occur over the next 24 hours. The time and place of previous criminal activity helps to determine future offences. Kent Police are at the forefront of this with their system PredPol.

The agency doesn’t ask for explicit consent to collect the voiceprints; and, the…

Don’t expect tracking methods such as browser fingerprinting to disappear anytime soon, even…