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Privacy Case against Microsoft Gets Dismissed by Supreme Court

Microsoft has been fighting the Justice Department since 2013. However, it looks like the US Supreme Court has decided to dismiss…

6 years ago

Facebook is Buying Data on Your Offline Activity

While most Facebook users are aware that the social network is tracking your interests and activities while using the site…

8 years ago

TalkTalk Could be Put Out of Business by Compensation Claims

UK ISP TalkTalk could potentially be put out of business by compensation claims following the recent hack that compromised unencrypted…

9 years ago

Microsoft Addresses Windows 10 Privacy Concerns by Pretending They Don’t Exist

Since the release of Windows 10 at the end of July this year, there’s been much frenzied concern – some…

9 years ago

Mozilla Deploys Built-in Firefox Ads

Mozilla has implemented its long-proposed but negatively-received Suggested Tiles feature within Firefox, which effectively inserts Mozilla-approved ads into the browser.…

9 years ago

Reddit Refused 42% of User Data Requests in 2014

  As part of its annual transparency report, released on Thursday, reddit has revealed that it turned down 42% of…

10 years ago

Apple Doesn’t Want to be a ‘Treasure Trove’ of Data For the NSA

Being the biggest tech company in the world isn't easy. Apple has been under hawk eye vision by both users and…

10 years ago

International Class Action Privacy Suit Targets Facebook

Activist and law student, Max Schrems, has launched an international class action suit against Facebook Ireland for not being in…

10 years ago

Steam User Data Being Sold on Russian Dark Web

Hackers have been targeting all areas of the internet lately. From corporations, to small businesses and even secret service servers…

10 years ago

Angry Birds Maker Rovio Denies Allowing NSA To Spy On Its Users

Reports from Edward Snowden about alleged NSA spying techniques and 'how deep the rabbit hole goes' information have been rolling…

11 years ago