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Grab selfie verification, audio-video recording suspended: privacy watchdog

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 05 04:33 PM

The Philippines' dominant ride-hailing service failed to sufficiently identify risks to consumers, the National Privacy Commission said. Read more »

Release of airline passenger manifest allowed due to 2019-nCoV issue: NPC

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 05 03:11 AM

MANILA - The release of passenger manifests by airlines to government agencies is allowed because of the circumstances the Philippines and the rest of the world are undergoing to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, according to the head of the National Privacy Commission (NPC). Read more »

Twitter says state-backed actors may have accessed users' phone numbers

Reuters
Posted at Feb 04 11:55 AM

Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts, after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the company's "contacts upload" feature. Read more »

EU mulls 5-year ban on facial recognition tech in public areas

Foo Yun Chee, Reuters
Posted at Jan 17 08:40 AM

The plan by the EU's executive - set out in an 18-page white paper - comes amid a global debate about the systems driven by artificial intelligence and widely used by law enforcement agencies. Read more »

Hong Kong foreign domestic workers victimized by 'doxxing'

Jan Yumul, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 24 04:07 PM

The Philippine Consulate General in Hong Kong has confirmed it has received a report over the exposure of personal details from passports and Hong Kong identity cards of Filipino domestic workers in a Facebook group. Read more »

China names and shames tech giants for app privacy violations

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 20 06:21 PM

BEIJING - Chinese tech giants Tencent and Xiaomi have been reprimanded by Beijing for designing apps that infringe on users' privacy, even as the Communist regime amasses its own collection of personal data. Read more »

Facebook says it can locate users who opt out of tracking

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 18 12:54 PM

The social network, which was responding to a request for information by two senators, contended that knowing a user's whereabouts has benefits ranging from showing ads for nearby shops to fighting hackers and battling misinformation. Read more »

Instagram to collect ages in leap for youth safety, alcohol ads

Paresh Dave, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 05 10:33 AM

Until now, Instagram except for limited circumstances has required its 1 billion users only to say they are at least 13 years old. Read more »

EU to check how Facebook, Google use personal data

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 03 03:29 AM

The European Commission said Monday it had begun a "preliminary investigation" into how Facebook and Google collect personal data and what they do with it. Read more »

EU antitrust regulators probes Google's data collection

Foo Yun Chee, Reuters
Posted at Dec 01 07:53 AM

EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google's collection of data, the European Commission told Reuters on Saturday, suggesting the world's most popular internet search engine remains in its sights despite record fines in recent years. Read more »

EXPLAINER: End-to-end encryption and chat privacy

Nicole Perlroth, The New York Times
Updated as of Nov 20 04:03 PM

Tech bosses like Apple CEO Tim Cook believe online communication should be free from snooping. Law enforcers say tough encryption makes it impossible to track child predators, terrorists and other criminals. Read more »

Google antitrust probe to expand into Android

Reuters
Posted at Nov 15 08:19 AM

The several dozen attorneys general investigating advertising practices at Alphabet Inc's Google are planning to expand their antitrust probe into the unit's flagship Android business, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Read more »

Should people be paid for sharing their personal data online?

Umberto Bacchi, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Nov 14 11:24 AM

From tagging photos on Facebook to driving with Google Maps, people should join forces in "data unions" to demand payment for letting online tools collect their data, according to an economist advocating for radical reforms to improve society. Read more »

'Digital revolution' excluding the most vulnerable, world leaders told

Zoe Tabary, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Nov 14 09:21 AM

Tech giants, once seen as engines of economic growth and a source of innovation, have come under fire on both sides of the Atlantic for allegedly misusing their power and for failing to protect their users' privacy. Read more »

US judge rules suspicionless searches of travelers' digital devices unconstitutional

Nate Raymond, Reuters
Posted at Nov 13 05:06 AM

BOSTON - A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that US border agents need "reasonable suspicion" but not a warrant to search travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other US ports of entry, a practice that has been growing in recent years.   Read more »

Tech firms react to netizens' digital privacy concerns

Thomas Cabral and Jules Bonnard, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 08 03:48 PM

A slew of tech entrepreneurs are bidding to turn growing consciousness about the problem into a money-making industry and many showcased their skills at this week's Web Summit in Lisbon. Read more »

California says Facebook impeding privacy probe

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 07 07:12 AM

California's attorney general on Wednesday accused Facebook of failing to provide a slew of information subpoenaed in a probe of its privacy practices begun last year in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Read more »

Facebook executives planned 'switcharoo' on data policy change - court filings

Katie Paul and Mark Hosenball, Reuters
Updated as of Nov 07 07:17 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook Inc began cutting off access to user data for app developers from 2012 to squash potential rivals while presenting the move to the general public as a boon for user privacy, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters.   Read more »

US opens national security probe of Chinese-owned app TikTok: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 02 07:20 AM

The US government has opened a national security investigation into the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, the New York Times reported Friday. Read more »

Google wants safeguards for information in antitrust fight

Daisuke Wakabayashi, The New York Times
Posted at Nov 01 08:18 AM

In a petition filed Thursday in Texas state court of Travis County, Google, along with its parent company Alphabet, sought a protective order against Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, who is spearheading the multistate antitrust investigation into the company. Read more »