After asking employees to remove the TikTok app from their phones Friday morning (July 10), Amazon later said it sent the staff memo in error, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. According to memo that was later retracted, TikTok, the widely popular mobile video app, could be...
ID verification firm Payfone has completed a $100 million funding round which the company says it will use for strengthening machine learning and building a new consortium to help secure digital transactions, the press release says. The round was led by funds advised by Apax...
In new contact tracing apps built to combat the coronavirus, Apple and Google-parent Alphabet will ban the use of location-tracking GPS software that could compromise privacy. Contact tracing is the practice of tracking people infected with the virus and then mapping out where they’d been...
A recent study about how people respond to scammers shows that consumers are more likely to become victims on social media and online marketplaces than over the phone, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday (Sept. 28). A joint study by the Better Business Bureau,...
July 12, 2020
Citing security concerns, Wells Fargo is asking employees to remove the TikTok apps from their work phones, Bloomberg reported. TikTok, the popular video-making app, is owned by China’s Bytedance, and it has come under scrutiny from U.S. government officials. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently said Americans who downloaded the app risked their private information […]
July 10, 2020
After asking employees to remove the TikTok app from their phones Friday morning (July 10), Amazon later said it sent the staff memo in error, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. According...
June 19, 2020
ID verification firm Payfone has completed a $100 million funding round which the company says it will use for strengthening machine learning and building a new consortium to help secure...
May 05, 2020
In new contact tracing apps built to combat the coronavirus, Apple and Google-parent Alphabet will ban the use of location-tracking GPS software that could compromise privacy. Contact tracing is the...
