Discovering that someone has created a fake social media profile using your name or photos is a deeply unsettling experience. The four major platforms—Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and X—explicitly prohibit impersonation and provide dedicated reporting channels, with three of them allowing reports even without an account. In Spain, creating a fake profile with another person’s image … Read more
This guide is for travellers booking a holiday flat or house who need the camera rules. It covers Airbnb’s policy since April 2024, Booking.com’s customer terms, Spanish law, arrival checks and what to do if a device should not be there. A platform rule protects you only when compliance is easy to verify. Airbnb simplified … Read more
Smart glasses with cameras look like ordinary eyewear, which is exactly why they raise privacy alarms. Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD, addressed the issue in a good-practice guide published on July 13, 2026, warning that conventional-looking frames can capture people without permission, especially in sensitive places such as pools and beaches. TechNews DevTop examines … Read more
You open your inbox, see a message from a service you barely remember signing up for, and the word breach jumps off the screen. Or worse, a push notification or a news alert about a cyberattack lands first and you have no idea whether your account was inside the blast radius. The good news is … Read more
Pasting a rental contract, electricity bill or lab report into a chatbot is tempting: it decodes the jargon in seconds. The catch is everything that travels with the document. Spain’s Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) captured the risk in its January 2026 decalogue: “Be careful what you entrust to it.” Strip identifiers first: … Read more
Every loyalty card, insurance policy and social account leaves behind a record of personal data that most people never get to inspect. European privacy law offers a direct route into that record: Article 15 of the GDPR entitles anyone to ask an organisation whether it processes their data, to receive a copy at no cost … Read more