Amazon's Ring cameras were used to spy on customers

Every single Amazon Ring employee was able to access every single customer video, even when it wasn't necessary for their jobs. Not only that, but the employees--along with workers from a third-party contractor in Ukraine--could also download any of those videos and then save and share them as th...

TikTok Violated Children’s Privacy Law, FTC Complaint Says

The popular video sharing app TikTok has landed in hot water again over privacy issues. On Thursday, a group of privacy advocates filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission FTC alleging the platform failed to adequately protect children’s privacy. The complaint alleged that TikTok violat...

Privacy Groups File FTC Complaint over WhatsApp Data Sharing with Facebook

Alleging a trail of broken promises, two privacy-focused advocacy groups yesterday filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission against a recent WhatsApp privacy policy change that states it will begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook. The Electronic Privacy Information Cente...

FTC Sues Wyndham Over Breaches Linked to $10m In Fraud

UPDATE: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has fined Wyndham Hotels for a string of data breaches that resulted in information on hundreds of thousands of customers being lost to cyber criminals. An FTC complaint, filed on June 26, 2012, asks for “permanent injunctive relief” against Wyndham for...

How The Free Market Fails Privacy-Conscious Consumers

Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part podcast with security researcher Chris Soghoian. It’s a truism that the pace of technological change outstrips society’s ability to grasp the impact of that change. For the most part, the consequences of this are benign and the remedies...

Dropbox potential security flaw revealed, could be exploited by hackers !

It seems that information which Dropbox, the popular web-based file-sharing site/service, issued in response to a US Federal Trade Commission complaint, has revealed a potential security flaw that, according to Ray Bryant, CEO of Idappcom, could be exploited by hackers. According to Bryant, after...

Privacy Advocate Asks FTC to Force Google to Change Privacy Practices

Chris Soghoian, a well-known privacy advocate and former Federal Trade Commission technologist, has filed a complaint with the FTC asking that the commission force Google to amend its privacy policy to reflect what he says are shortcomings in the company’s protection of data related to consumers’...