Privacy

The Windows Club has released version 5.0 of Ultimate Windows Tweaker. With UWT, a large number of Windows settings can be easily adjusted. In this way, the appearance, behavior, performance and security of Windows can be adjusted to…

Google has tightened several commitments to the UK market authority CMA regarding the use of Privacy Sandbox. The authority fears that phasing out tracking cookies in Chrome will harm Google's competitors and give the tech company an…

A UK government bill aims to end easy-to-guess passwords that manufacturers set on devices by default. The bill aims to improve the safety standards of a large number of products.The United Kingdom government has presented the Product…

The Chinese government has banned download stores from letting Tencent update its current apps and games or release new apps. The company is getting "temporary administrative guidance," presumably because of the privacy policies of its…

Privacy activist Max Schrems' noyb foundation has filed a corruption complaint against the Irish privacy regulator. The Data Protection Commissioner in the country is said to have engaged in 'procedural extortion' by asking noyb to step…

WhatsApp will expand its privacy statement with more explanation about what data is collected and what data other parties receive from the chat service. WhatsApp is doing so following the Irish GDPR fine of 225 million euros. The…

Version 7.0.4 of AnyDesk for Windows has been released. With this program, which is being developed by former TeamViewer employees, another computer can be taken over to manage it remotely. The program is available for Windows, Linux,…

Version 8.3.0 of PeaZip has been released. This archiving program is made available under an open source license, and downloads are available for Windows and Linux. The program aims to distinguish itself from the competition by…

Privacy foundation Noyb of activist Max Schrems has filed a GDPR complaint against Grindr. When requesting someone's personal information, the dating app asks for a photo of both the identity card and the e-mail address. According to…

Chat app WhatsApp gets a function to exclude people from showing the 'Last seen' status. This is evident from the latest beta version of the app for Android. It is unknown when the stable version of the app will get this feature.The new…