Germany mulls giving end-to-end chat app encryption
Government officials in Germany are reportedly mulling a law to force chat app providers to hand over end-to-end encrypted conversations […]
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Google faces privacy complaints in European countries
Google’s privacy woes are set to increase after campaigners on Tuesday filed complaints to data protection regulators in France, Germany […]
Amazon now lets you tell Alexa to delete your voice recordings
You’ll now be able to say, “Alexa, delete everything I said today.” Amazon stores recordings of every request you’ve made […]
Vulnerability versus incident
The news is filled with stories nearly every day of things going awry in technical systems: security, privacy, abuse, ethics […]
Employees are almost as dangerous to business security as hackers and cybercriminals
Non-malicious insiders are among the top three threat actors, according to an ISACA report. Employee mistakes and system errors are […]
Apple is now the privacy-as-a-service company
Apple unveiled a new single-sign on unified ID platform, as well as a new way it’ll operate as a go-between […]
NCSC publishes new guidance and security paper now available
UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has published two new items of security architecture guidance, to help designers of computer […]
EU Council publishes draft conclusions on the retention of data to fight the crime
On 27 May, 2019, the Presidency of the Council issued draft conclusions of the Data Retention Working Party on the […]
EDPS flags data protection issues on EU institutions’ websites
An inspection carried out by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) on the websites of major EU institutions and bodies […]
Facebook ordered by U.S. judge to turn over data privacy records
A U.S. judge ordered Facebook Inc to give shareholders emails and other records concerning how the social media company handles […]
Belgian Data Protection Authority issues its first fine
On Tuesday 28 May 2019, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) imposed its first financial penalty since the entry into […]
Supreme Court dismisses Facebook appeal over transfer of user personal data to the US
Ireland’s Supreme Court has dismissed Facebook’s appeal over a High Court decision to refer key issues concerning the validity of […]