A European privacy watchdog is scrutinizing Amazon over its handling of personal data collected through Alexa voice recordings, according to Reuters.
The Luxembourg-based regulator asked the US tech giant to provide information about Alexa, although did not specify why.
Alexa is embedded in a whole variety of products, including phones, speakers and even clocks, to allow you to control almost your whole smart home with your voice.
But concerns have been raised about voice assistants from tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Google being triggered accidentally and listening into and recording private conversations.
Recent revelations have also shown that these companies rely on human workers to manually review recorded snippets for quality control or to help develop new features.
These practices have raised major privacy concerns for consumers, and could also risk the companies falling foul of privacy laws.
Mobile app world had entirely over the world and through digital technology it hold the power to gain your goals.
Now, these applications have access to all the data stored on our phones.
There is a reason why we use passcodes and locks in our phone because we store some confidential data too that we don’t wanna share with anyone.
A research shows that almost 70% of the apps are sharing your data with the third party tracking companies like Google Analytics and others.
Frankly saying this is totally positive some of the information gathered by the apps are necessary to operate its function for the user.
Users data sharing Help or Harmful?
But we would also add that the need in various social media applications will not go anywhere and it’s just getting stronger and stronger.
The other thing is how to create a social network app that will be taken well by the global market.
These are important questions, no doubt, but before you get to these issues you should answer one more question, the essential one.
Not to mention that a well developed and cool looking user’s profile increases your chances of success.
First of all, you need to create an environment inside the app as personal as possible.
Well, we believe there are few ground rules you need to follow.
Various Android apps are still sharing your data with Facebook which could be used to personally identify you for ad tracking straight to Facebook immediately upon logging in.
Some of the notable apps in the list are Yelp and Duolingo.
Apart from these two names, Privacy International also found two Muslim prayer apps, a bible app, and a job search app called Indeed.
The reports of PI also revealed that this transmission may also reveal custom identifiers that helps Facebook track that user across its network of service.
The previous reports had revealed that big-name Android apps were sending data to Facebook that too without consent and proper disclosure.
Facebook has always routinely tracked users,non-users, and logged out users outside its platform through Facebook Business Tools.
This piece of legislation has a far-reaching impact even on some of the largest organizations in the world; hence, it’s important for everyone to know what it really entails.
For instance, a US-based call center in charge of customer services for firms that sell their services in Europe falls into this category.
Apparently, the EY and the International Association of Privacy Professionals projected that Fortune Global 500 firms would spend about $7.8 billion to get ready for the new legislation.
A key focus of GDPR regulation is on conditions of consent.
The GDPR regulation requires companies to report data breaches to Data Protection Commissioner immediately and notify the people whose data was compromised, within 72 hours.
The commissioner or the relevant authority will try to examine the compromised data and the preventative measures in place at the time of the breach.
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are must-have tools to keep your internet browsing hidden and your personal information safe, which is why we asked you last week to tell us whether or not you use one.
Overall the results are good, but there is plenty of room for improvement.
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Out of over 1,500 total votes, the results are clear — 58.5% of Android Authority readers use a VPN every single day.
21% of readers at least have a VPN installed, but they don’t use it.
That’s at least better than the 20.5% of voters who don’t use a VPN at all.
And, when it is about getting a free Wi-Fi connection, it’s like reaching cloud nine, right?
We always get excited when we receive free access to any public Wi-Fi, but you must know that accessing a public W-Fi has many hazardous effects to all your personal information, from contacts to even losing funds from your bank account.
This may sound a bit surprising to you, so I'm giving you some suggestions to ensure you that if you keep certain things in mind while accessing the free Wi-Fi, you will no longer be a victim of Web Fraud.
If you are not using the Wi-Fi, make sure that you turn it off which in-turn helps to resolve three basic issues:
Rapid discharge of your battery
Automatic connection to a fraudulent network.
