In August, WhatsApp announced that they had started sharing users' phone numbers with Facebook, which acquired the messaging company for $19 billion in 2014. Britain’s privacy watchdog has managed to get WhatsApp to agree to pause sharing user data with Facebook for the purpose of targeting ads. The watchdogs had concerns consumers aren't properly being...
Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn't believe that the future of artificial intelligence will infringe on users' privacy, the way many people believe the technology does now. After promising big investments in machine learning during Apple's fourth quarter earnings call, Cook said that he thinks that AI and user privacy can co-exist (via MacRumors). Responding to...
SourceDNA has identified more than 250 apps (with an estimated 1 million downloads) that violate customer privacy. All the identified apps link back to a common codebase, the Youmi advertising SDK from China (via Ars Technica). As detailed by the analytics service tracking iOS and Android code, the apps collect personal information by calling private APIs,...