Software company accused of illegally profiling millions of mobile phone users

A digital rights and privacy organization has filed a complaint against software company TeleSign for gathering and selling information on millions of mobile phone users. The organization that filed the complaint is nyob. nyob is an Austrian based digital right organization that focusses on...

New EU Privacy Laws Will Complicate B2B Data Sharing

NEW YORK – United States companies doing business abroad are grumbling over new European privacy laws set to take effect in less than one year. The EU privacy rules are far more stringent than U.S. laws, and are meant to give consumers the upper hand when it comes to controlling what data is stor...

France Orders Facebook To Stop Tracking Non-Users or Face Fines

8th February 2016 would be considered as a cursed day in the history of Facebook. You might have known that just yesterday India bans Facebook's Free Basic Internet in the country. Now, Zuckerberg had got another bombshell in the form of a French Order from the European Data Protection Authority,...

EU Audit Forces Changes To Facebook Privacy Policies

An audit of Facebook’s operations by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland will result in major changes to the way the social networking giant manages user data. The 143 page report, issued on Wednesday, calls on Facebook to give users more control over how their personal...