Apple set to back strong privacy laws in Europe and US
Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to praise new GDPR privacy rules and voice support for strong laws in Europe and the US.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to praise new GDPR privacy rules and voice support for strong laws in Europe and the US.
As the dust settles on news that cyber attackers stole data from 29 million accounts, Facebook is rumoured to be buying a cyber security firm.
Facebook has hired former British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to lead its global affairs and communications team.
Facebook has tentatively concluded that spammers looking to make money, and not a nation-state, were behind the largest-ever data theft.
Apple has raised concerns about the Assistance and Access Bill, arguing its “dangerously ambiguous” wording will create a risk to weakened cyber security.
Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next.
Facebook has unveiled updates to its Workplace social collaboration app, including the ability to communicate with external organisations.
Facebook, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon will oppose an Australian law requiring access to private encrypted data linked to suspected illegal activities.
Digital Rights Watch, the Human Rights Law Centre, Amnesty International and Access Now have joined forces with a number of industry bodies representing the likes of Google, Facebook, Apple and Telstra to reject the government’s so called ‘encryption bill’.
Investigators have determined that hackers did not access other sites that use Facebook's single sign-on during the massive cyber attack.
Hackers stole digital login codes allowing them to take over nearly 50 million user accounts in Facebook's worst security breach ever.
Hackers discovered a security flaw that allowed them to take over up to 50 million user accounts, a major breach for the social media giant.
Six major web companies and internet-service providers will detail their consumer data privacy practices to a U.S. Senate panel on 26 September.
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Oath and Twitter members have raised concerns over the Assistance and Access Bill draft published on 14 August.
The U.S. government is trying to force Facebook to break the encryption in its popular Messenger app, according to three people briefed on the case.