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A new EU ruling against Facebook (and more importantly against other websites) suggests that sites using Facebook’s Like Button will be held responsible for the data the sites share with Facebook. According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, various websites that use Facebook’s Like Button plugin can’t send users’ data to Facebook […]
On Monday 27 March 2019, the European Parliament passed the controversial EU copyright law. However, two clauses within the law, namely Article 13 and 11, are the cause of concern for millions of internet users in the EU. What is Article 13? Article 13 will enforce strict copyright measures over companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Google. […]
Germany’s competition watchdog has banned Facebook from collecting user data from WhatsApp, Instagram, and other Facebook apps, without users’ consent. The Federal cartel office ordered Facebook not to combine data from its own suite of social platforms without user consent. It also prohibited the social media giant from linking the data obtained from third-party websites using technologies like […]
Since the introduction of European Union GDPR back in May, apps and services have been restricted from sharing user’s data to the third party without their knowledge. At the time of the ruling, Facebook was given a special treatment, considering its involvement in the Cambridge Analytical Scandal where data of millions of users was breached. Now, the […]
A group of cybercriminals successfully intervened in European Union’s diplomatic communications for about three years According to specialists in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security, thousands of messages from European diplomats dealing with issues relating to topics such as American President Donald Trump and world trade were intercepted by a group of hackers […]