Experts have raised privacy concerns after Indian authorities announced proposals to roll our facial recognition cameras designed to track women’s facial expressions for signs of harassment. The police will introduce the overreaching surveillance program in the north Indian city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. That city has been singled out…
MeWe is an emerging social media platform experiencing a massive influx of users fleeing from invasive platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp. In this guide, we explain what you need to know about MeWe and ask is the social media platform good? [[post-object type=”divider” /]] Why are people using MeWe? In…
Governments all over the world are hugely interested in tracking what citizens do online. This kind of digital surveillance allows the authorities to gain unprecedented levels of information about their citizens – even if those people have done nothing wrong. The most efficient way to access this kind of habitual…
Freshly-inaugurated President Joe Biden certainly has a lot on his plate as he begins his presidency. On top of trying to gain control of a still-raging pandemic, Biden’s key priorities for his first 100 days are aimed at addressing a slew of immigration, equality, foreign policy, employment, climate, and economic…
Edward Snowden’s explosive revelations in the summer of 2013 exposing to the world the alarming extent of the NSA’s mass surveillance practices sent shockwaves around the globe and triggered a profound shift in the ways we think about our digital privacy. When you find out that all of your digital…
Ugandan citizens are currently unable to access messenger and social media sites. Uganda’s internet shutdown – initially implemented on January 13 – has been lifted, but social media sites are still inaccessible. As per an order from Uganda’s communications regulator, the country’s ISPs have blocked access to social platforms and…
Whaling attacks see hackers target senior executives, using social-engineering, in order to trick them into transferring funds or bank details. Whaling is often spoken about in the same breath as phishing – but a whaling scam is typically far more sophisticated and harder to clock. In this guide, we’ll…
Fines for companies not adhering to the General Data Protection Regulations set out by the EU have risen by almost half in the past 12 months, law firm DLA Piper has revealed. The steep rise brings the total fines imposed since 2018 to €272m, €159m of which has been paid…
By now, you’ve probably amassed an impressive collection of photos, documents, music and more – and whether they’re personal files or an important part of your job, you’d probably be upset if they went up in a puff of smoke. Luckily, it’s pretty simple to prevent this from happening….
Privacy experts are raising the alarm following the Israeli government’s decision to share COVID-19 vaccine patient data with Pfizer. The data-sharing program, which has been agreed as part of a fast track plan to get the entire population inoculated as quickly as possible, could have lasting repercussions for citizens…