The importance of privacy and how the HONOR Magic V2 safeguards yours

by admin | Apr 5, 2024 | data privacy, Honor, Honor Magic V2, News, Phone News, Sponsored Post

Privacy has always been a highly valued commodity in society – but since the inception of the internet, and the subsequent apps that collect an individual’s personal information, privacy has become more and more fleeting. The digital age has brought so many...

How to protect your data privacy: A digital media expert provides steps you can take and explains why you can’t go it alone

by admin | Jan 30, 2024 | data, data privacy, News, Security, Security News, The Conversation

Perfect safety is no more possible online than it is when driving on a crowded road with strangers or walking alone through a city at night. Like roads and cities, the internet’s dangers arise from choices society has made. To enjoy the freedom of cars comes with the...

Facebook’s teen mental health Waterloo

by admin | Nov 2, 2023 | Column, Columns, data privacy, facebook, Industry News, mental health, News, TikTok, Toby Shapshak

Facebook’s decades-long disregard for its users’ mental health is coming back to bite it in the form of a major lawsuit by several states in the US. The attorneys general of 42 States have sued Instagram owner Meta – or Facebook as we all still call it – for the...

TikTok data privacy comes to the EU

by admin | Sep 30, 2023 | Column, Columns, data privacy, EU, News, Other Tech News, TikTok, Toby Shapshak

Europe’s war against privacy issues keeps on rolling, with TikTok being the latest social media platform to be fined. This fine – amounting to €345 million or R6.8 billion – was for how it dealt with children’s accounts under the EU’s very strict General Data...

No Atlantic crossing for Facebook data

by admin | Jun 9, 2023 | Column, Columns, data privacy, facebook, Industry News, Meta, News, Toby Shapshak

The Atlantic has always been the great physical divide between Europe and the Americas, between the Old World and the New World — as it was described 500 years ago, when seafaring adventurers set off from Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands to find riches. During...

Should the US ban TikTok? Can it? A cybersecurity expert explains the risks and challenges

by admin | Apr 17, 2023 | App News, data privacy, News, Social media, The Conversation, TikTok

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, 2023, amid a chorus of calls from members of Congress for the federal government to ban the Chinese-owned video social media app and reports that the Biden administration...