Amazon found itself in hot water earlier this month but managed to keep it under the cover. The company was slapped with largest ever fine for data protection violations in Europe. On July 16, Luxembourg's data protection authority asked Amazon to...

What are the dire straits a company has to face, due to non-compliance with GDPR? The wrath of Irish authorities! That's what Twitter.Inc (NYSE: TWTR) has gotten itself in. According to recent reports by Fortune, Irish authorities have pulled Twitter to a...

The recent Facebook fiasco trigged a debate on the safety and security of internet users' data collected by tech giants, including Google. While many countries are still evaluating many proposed practices to safeguard the private information of their countrymen, EU...

Mobile apps have become the cornerstone of our daily routines, reshaping the way we communicate, work, learn, entertain ourselves, and access information. Many companies, especially those in the realms of social media, gaming, and payment services, derive a significant...

Apple has announced quite a few privacy-enhancing features during its annual software developer conference (WWDC 2021) that held on June 07, 2021. According to the presentation, iPhone users will get even more control over their own data with iOS...

Juspay, the leading Indian payment processing startup has been revealed to suffer a major data breach in which the masked credit and debit card numbers, email ids, names, and phone numbers of at least 3.5 crore users have been...

The much-anticipated Facebook dating app finds itself in a tough spot. Facebook had to call off the launch of their dating service in Europe as it failed to give its lead EU data regulator enough advanced warning, including failing...

Twitter has disclosed that it unknowingly used user credentials like phone numbers and e-mails for targeted advertising. The statement was made in an official blog-post released on Tuesday, 8 October.  The social media site confessed that the phone numbers and...

With 5 billion records exposed in 6,515 data breaches in 2018, it was the second most active year for publicly exposed breaches after 2017, reports Risk Based Security (RBS) in its The Year End 2018 Data Breach QuickView Report. Among the data breaches, 12 breaches exposed 100+...

When "facts" don't work and people don't trust the internet anymore, that's when you know that the digital dominoes are falling! Past few years have been a blatant display of what one may call a litany of mishaps that reflect...