South Korea Suspends New DeepSeek Downloads, Data Protection Agency Confirms

By Huma Ishfaq ⏐ 4 months ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI application, acknowledged failing to comply with certain data security regulations in South Korea, leading to the suspension of new downloads on…

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Microsoft Fined $20 Million For Child Privacy Violations

By Abdullah Shahid ⏐ 2 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The $20 million fine comes after the company was found illegally collecting data for children’s opening up Xbox accounts American technology giant, Microsoft, will now pay…

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Meta Gets a Record Breaking $1.3 Billion Fine for Sharing European Data With US

By Abdullah Shahid ⏐ 2 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

It was reported that Meta was transferring EU user data across the Atlantic despite being ordered to stop back in October 2022 thus resulting in…

Govt sets aside Rs2 billion to protect institutions from cyber attacks

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 4 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

In a concerted effort to stave off cyber attacks on public sector institutions, the government has sanctioned a sum of Rs2 billion for the purpose of forming…

Facebook might be secretly working on an Android-powered smartwatch

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 4 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook is up to something, but thankfully, it has nothing to do with your privacy this time. Instead, it appears that the social media behemoth…

Strong data protection laws needed in Pakistan after WhatsApp privacy policy change

By Talha Ikram ⏐ 4 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

In a response to the new WhatsApp privacy policy that openly allows the sharing of user data with Facebook, the Minister of Science and Technology,…

France slaps massive fines on Google and Amazon for dropping tracking cookies without consent

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

France’s premier data protection agency, the CNIL, fined tech titans Google and Amazon today for dropping tracking cookies without user consent. This breach of cookie…

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