The Sync

Happy Data Privacy Day! This year, the National Cybersecurity Alliance has expanded the annual Data Privacy Day campaign into Data Privacy Week, a full week-long initiative. Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of Data Protection Day in Europe. Data ...

In recent months, there have been rising concerns about privacy issues surrounding Apple AirTags. People have reported on social media about finding AirTags on their cars and in their belongings. There is growing concern that the devices may be encouraging a new form of stalking, which privacy group...

As 2022 turns the corner, many of us are making resolutions for a fresh start in the New Year — maybe to exercise regularly, get our finances in order, or spend more quality time with friends and family. But your list isn’t complete until you add “update my security software” and “protect ...

Every photo holds a story. Photos and videos capture a snapshot in time and viewing them brings back memories of when the photo was taken and the people or scenery in them. With time, the memories aren’t as fresh as they used to be, and some of the people, places, or even time might be […]...

Is your data really safe? In just the past decade, even the biggest tech behemoths like Apple, Facebook, and Yahoo have suffered from data breaches and password leaks. If you have any data stored online or you have social media accounts, your data has likely been leaked by hackers. So how do you pro...

The big five tech giants — Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple — connect nearly 4.6 billion people across the world. The staggering amount of data they store in their data centers are collectively worth billions of dollars and have resulted in algorithms that can actually change socia...

Recently, some users have discovered that the popular social media app WeChat (with over 1.25 billion active users monthly) has been scanning its users’ photo app content in the background every few hours and sending that data back to its servers, as seen here. That left many users frazzled and w...

Last week’s global Facebook outage was the worst that we have experienced in over 13 years. We often take for granted how these social media platforms enable us to live our everyday lives, from doing work to connecting with our loved ones to storing our personal data. As much as we like to think t...

The new Apple iPhone 13 has arrived.  With all the new tech specs that come with it, no doubt many Apple fans will try to get their hands on one of these devices.  Whether you want to buy the iPhone 13 mini or the bigger iPhone 13, you still need to decide on the storage […]...

We are thrilled to share with you that Amber X has been given the prestigious honor of being selected as a CES 2021 Innovation Awards Honoree for the CYBERSECURITY & PERSONAL PRIVACY category. The CES Innovation Awards is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consu...