May 31, 2025 In response to escalating concerns over U.S. government influence on cloud operations, Microsoft has committed to legally contesting any orders that would disrupt its European data centres. The company also announced a significant expansion of more...
May 31, 2025 A new opinion piece in the New York Times warns that the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, is amassing an unprecedented trove of personal data on American citizens. The system, more...
April 30, 2025 Perplexity AI plans to launch a new browser, Comet, in May 2025, designed to monitor users' online activities to deliver highly personalized advertisements. CEO Aravind Srinivas announced the initiative, emphasizing the company's strategy to collect more...
April 22, 2025 A U.S. appeals court has reinstated a proposed data privacy class action against Canadian e-commerce company Shopify, allowing the case to proceed in California. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 10-1 that Shopify more...
April 14, 2025 A recent incident in Toronto has raised significant privacy concerns after a Lyft passenger discovered that her private conversation during a ride was transcribed and sent to her phone. The event, which occurred in March, more...
March 30, 2025 Recent reports indicate that the Trump administration has intensified inspections of travellers' electronic devices, leading to detentions and deportations of both U.S. residents and tourists under its stringent immigration policies. Although such electronic searches constitute more...
March 24, 2025 Genetic testing company 23andMe - which once had high-profile endorsements from the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Eva Longoria, and Snoop Dogg has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to facilitate its sale after years of more...
March 18, 2025 The UK government has launched an inquiry into the data broking industry, seeking insights into its operations and potential national security risks. The Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT) is calling on stakeholders to more...
March 16, 2025 Amazon has announced that, effective March 28, 2025, it will discontinue the "Do Not Send Voice Recordings" feature on select Echo devices, resulting in all voice recordings being processed in the cloud. Transition to Cloud more...
September 3, 2024 Clearview AI, a U.S.-based facial recognition company, has been fined €30.5 million ($33.7 million) by the Netherlands’ data protection authority for illegally creating a database of billions of faces scraped from social media and the more...
