In a PR move, a Washington dive bar has become the first establishment to ban Google’s Glass, citing privacy concerns for patrons, ahead of the launch of the augmented reality eyewear later this year.
Mozilla’s new Firefox browser cookie settings, which will come into effect in early April and will block third party cookies by default, have come under fire from the UK’s digital advertising trade body.
Irish and German regulators have confirmed that Facebook has deleted all trace of European facial recognition data, following a privacy outcry last year.
Facebook will start revealing which ads have been behaviourally targeted to users on the social network, in a bid to ease privacy fears.
Facebook has reintroduced its controversial tag suggest feature for photos, following its temporary suspension over privacy fears last year.
Twitter was hacked over the weekend, resulting in the passwords of up to 250,000 user accounts being exposed.
Google is considering developing a ring that consumers can use to identify themselves securely online, as an alternative to passwords.
MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom has launched a new cloud storage service called Mega, offering users a massive 50GB of file storage online for free.
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) has raised industry concerns that the latest changes to EU proposals on consumer data protection reforms are “far worse for UK businesses” than originally conceived.
Facebook is to introduce new privacy controls next week letting users set their level of “frictionless sharing”, which has until now allowed apps such as Spotify or Yahoo! News to automatically post on the social network about users’ listening or reading habits.