Facebook is looking at adding facial recognition to its highly anticipated smart glasses that are planned to hit the market next year. At an all-staff meeting, Facebook Reality Labs director Andrew Bosworth said the company was examining the technology’s legal and privacy ramifications, BuzzFeed reports. He cautioned the benefits and risks were obvious, ‘and we … Read more
The kerfuffle over the privacy policy that WhatsApp was seemingly forcing on its users seem to have calmed down the past few weeks. The Facebook-owned app eventually moved its original deadline to later this year to give its users more time to understand the new terms and policies and to also launch campaigns to counter … Read more
They could hardly have scripted it more carefully. No sooner do the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announce they are expecting a second child than it emerges that the two of them will give a long interview to their friend, U.S. TV host Oprah Winfrey, to be broadcast on March 7. One can only imagine … Read more
They could hardly have scripted it more carefully. No sooner do the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announce they are expecting a second child than it emerges that the two of them will give a long interview to their friend, U.S. TV host Oprah Winfrey, to be broadcast on March 7. One can only imagine … Read more
The Duchess of Sussex has won her claim that her privacy was breached over the publication of a letter to her father Thomas, the High Court ruled today. Meghan, 39, is suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publishers of the Mail On Sunday and MailOnline, for misuse of private information, and infringement of copyright for publishing … Read more
Apple has announced a new anti-tracking feature. We believe the Cupertino company has always been serious when it comes security and privacy. Google wants to follow by coming up with a similar solution. There is no official word from the search giant but exploration is said to have already started. It can be an alternative … Read more
Tim Cook has defended Apple’s latest privacy update, saying it’s necessary because people are being ‘surveilled’ online by the apps they use – even as companies including Facebook said the new rules could seriously harm their businesses. The new update, part of the iOS14 operating system, will ask users to approve ‘tracking’ for each app … Read more
Tim Cook has said targeted Facebook advertising is ‘manipulating’ people amid his ongoing battle with Mark Zuckerberg over privacy – and profit. The Apple CEO was forced to defend an update to the iPhone that will make it more difficult for companies to run personalized commercials on people’s phones and iPads. When probed on the move Cook told GQ … Read more
US tech giant Apple is set to release its new anti-tracking feature in April or May, which aims to crack down on apps that track iPhone users. The feature, called App Tracking Transparency, will come into force in the spring with an upcoming release of iOS 14. App Tracking Transparency will require all apps to get … Read more
The head of the UK’s data privacy watchdog has told MPs she can see the benefit of Covid-19 immunity passports, but warned they could pose data privacy risks and create a ‘two-tier’ society based on who has had the jab. Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham told MPs such a system would raise concerns about how health … Read more