China requests internet companies to tighten data privacy as consumer anxiety rises
China is currently working on new data privacy laws as governments around the world address rising consumer anxiety as more […]
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EU Commissioner Vestager to present new AI law at the start of 2020
Over the next three months, European Commissioner Margrethe Vestager will draft a new European law for AI. As of December, […]
What if our personal data is less the ‘new oil’ and more like uranium?
Organisations are blundering about with our personal information with little idea of how to handle it safely, or even what […]
Less than half of US businesses are ready for CCPA compliance
The survey, conducted by Osterman Research, Inc., revealed the current state of security team preparedness and critical gaps in compliance […]
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 […]
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 […]