How Washington state lawmakers plan to regulate data privacy and facial recognition
Washington state legislators will push for new regulations governing data privacy and facial recognition next year. The new legislation builds […]
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IAB Releases Specifications for CCPA Compliance Framework
IAB Tech Lab is releasing version 1.0 of the technical specifications for the IAB CCPA Compliance Framework. The Framework supports compliance […]
Facebook Seeks Dismissal Of Location Privacy Class-Action
Facebook is asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit claiming it wrongly collected users’ IP addresses and deduced […]
Senate Democrats unveil priorities for federal privacy bill
A group of top Democratic senators from four key committees on Monday unveiled their priorities for the nation’s first comprehensive […]
Interpol: Strong encryption helps online predators. Build backdoors
Multinational police agency Interpol is due to say that tech companies deploying strong encryption helps paedophiles – unless they build […]
French government forms cybersecurity pact with major French companies
The French government signed a three-year cybersecurity pact with eight of the country’s leading companies, as major world nations step […]
Ransomware increases 74.23% year on year
New research by Bitdefender identifies a significant rise in ransomware this year, in comparison to 2018. In its Mid-Year Threat […]
Facebook, Google Fund Nonprofits Shaping Federal Privacy Debate
Few companies have more riding on proposed privacy legislation than Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. To try to steer […]
Top 10 data security predictions for 2020
Data classification firm Titus has unveiled its “Top 10 Data Security Predictions for 2020″ – timely insights based on surveys […]
Microsoft updates terms on data privacy amid EU probe
Microsoft said it was updating the privacy provisions of its commercial cloud contracts after European regulators found its deals with […]
Over 100K malicious sites using valid certificates
New research has uncovered suspicious retail look-alike domains using valid certificates. Research conducted by Venafi, analysed suspicious domains targeting 20 […]
French Supervisory Authority publishes guidance on facial recognition
On November 15, 2019, the French Supervisory Authority (CNIL) published guidance on the use of facial recognition. The guidance is […]