Brazil’s Ministry of Justice said on Monday it fined U.S. tech giant Facebook Inc 6.6 million reais ($1.6 million) for improperly sharing user data. The ministry’s department of consumer protection said it had found that data from 443,000 Facebook users was improperly made available to developers of an App called “thisisyourdigitallife.” The data was being shared for “questionable”... 

The International Criminal Court announced on Friday that it would open an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, sending waves of shock among Israeli officials and military personnel. But the decision hasn’t seemed to hamper the tight security cooperation between Israel and Europe. A week ago, Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, transferred... 

Millions of Americans are walking around with phones that have, unknowingly, created one of the most disturbing and unintentional “surveillance states” to ever exist. A explosive new opinion piece in the NY Times aims to demonstrate that detailed smartphone tracking is far more ubiquitous than many think, despite the ongoing claims by companies that people’s data is “anonymous”. Paul Ohm,... 

WhatsApp is a “Trojan horse” exploited to snoop on millions of users naive enough to believe that the Facebook-owned messenger differs from its parent company, long beset by privacy scandals, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said. In a lengthy post on his Telegram channel on Wednesday, Durov took aim at one of his brainchild’s biggest rivals – WhatsApp, the world’s leading messaging app, which... 

Tech titans Google and Facebook employ “surveillance-based business models” that threaten human rights and erode privacy worldwide, Amnesty International said in a new report, calling for an end to the data-grabs. Published on Wednesday, Amnesty’s “Surveillance Giants” report outlines how Facebook and Google, and their many affiliated platforms, operate in ways that are simply incompatible... 

While unsuspecting iPhone users read their daily dose of mainstream media news, the Facebook app is secretly accessing the camera on their smartphones. But Facebook says not to worry: it’s only a bug… Users, however, are rightly concerned that Facebook is recording them as they use the app. Unlike on Apple’s computers, there is no indicator when an app is accessing the camera, so it is possible... 

Tech censorship is nothing new, but a recent spate of permanent bans from the WhatsApp messaging service has users the world over spooked. Here’s your guide to keeping your nose clean and avoiding a ban. BUT despite the following guide, better yet just uninstall Whatsapp and use TELEGRAM instead. Force all your friends to switch to Telegram. Tell them this, simple and short “If you wanna speak... 

The Indian Army has warned its officers to stay away from Facebook and WhatsApp, arguing the popular US-based social media platforms are vulnerable to hacks and a “crucial source” for hostile intelligence-gathering. An army advisory strongly encourages soldiers, especially those holding “sensitive posts,” to avoid WhatsApp for any official communications and to consider deactivating their... 

An official US intelligence service investigation into several ISMI-cellphone surveillance devices found near the Trump White House and other sensitive locations around Washington has concluded that they were planted by the Israeli secret service to spy on the American president and his confidantes. Israel initially denied the accusations and said that it wasn’t them who planted the espionage... 

The media outlet Politico earlier released a bombshell report claiming that Washington suspects Israel of spying on the White House and other DC politicians’ cell phone communications. Elad Strohmayer, spokesperson for Israel’s DC Embassy, has dismissed the claims of Tel Aviv’s possible espionage on the White House calling the allegations “absolute nonsense”. “Israel... 

According to recent surveys, more and more people are worried that using personal data-gathering virtual assistants may have negative effects on their privacy. And between voice assistants offered by tech giants like Google, Amazon and Apple listening and recording their every word – and sending it to employees for “human review” – the vague terms of service and hidden opt-out features –... 

Chinese theft of white industrial enterprise from America is so rampant that the US Department of Justice has set up a special division just to try and deal with it—with the latest example being a Chinese professor of electrical engineering at UCLA being convicted of conspiring to illegally export semiconductor chips with missile guidance applications to China. According to a statement released... 

Facebook tracks users’ behavior on- and off-platform, hunting for “signals” that they could be a “hate agent,” and even talking to a “designated hate entity” can get a user banned, according to a policy document seen by Breitbart. Users who appear at events alongside or even interview “designated hate entities” risk being marked as a “hate agent” themselves, Breitbart reports... 

WhatsApp is threatening users who violate its rules with lawsuits, even if the only evidence of “rule-breaking” exists outside of the Facebook-owned messaging app and the only judge is an AI. “WhatsApp will take legal action against those we determine are engaged in or assisting others in abuse… even if that determination is based on information solely available to us off our platform,”... 

North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, a South Korean newspaper said on Friday. Kim Hyok Chol was executed in March at Mirim Airport in Pyongyang, along with four foreign ministry executives after they were all charged with spying for the United...