Activists call on the EU to defend a landmark data privacy regulation

Four years after it went into effect, the groundbreaking data privacy law (GDPR) is still plagued by delays and dysfunction, activists said Tuesday. The European Union must fix this.

The GDPR puts stringent regulations on how businesses can use and store customer information, and it com...

DONT USE WHATSAPP SAYS GERMANY’S DATA CHIEF

Highlights

• Responding to the allegations, WhatsApp has stated that messaging service doesn’t forward any user data to Facebook

• WhatsApp spokesman said that as the messages are encrypted throughout by default, they can’t be read by anyone except the pe...

Facebook knows your whereabouts

Facebook and data privacy never go hand-in-hand and can’t fit in a single sentence, for sure. Past many months have witnessed the notorious behavior of the social media platform. The platform has always ben callous about users’ data. A report suggested that the privacy is always elusi...

Facebook allows users to upload photos to Google

A tool has been launched by Facebook which will enable users to transfer their uploaded videos and photos to google photos.   

Initially, the service will be introduced in Ireland and by 2020, to the rest of the world. 

The step came as part of a larger objectiv...