What Google knows about you
For all the many controversies around Facebook’s mishandling of personal data, Google actually knows way more about most of us. […]
GDPR News
Most ICO data breach reports late and incomplete prior to GDPR
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) was released today revealing the amount of late […]
Data breaches up 400 percent, 15 billion records compromised
The number of data breaches increased more than 400 percent in 2018 exposing almost 15 billion records, according to the […]
California Sets Forth Further Legislation Imposing New Obligations on Companies
Over the past few weeks, California Republican lawmakers have introduced a new package of legislation called “Your Data, Your Way,” […]
GDPR Gives European Tech Companies A Major Advantage
Leveling the playing field and standardizing data privacy across 28 countries allowed European Union companies to scale easily and focus […]
Study shows programmers will take the easy way out and not implement proper password security
In an experiment that involved 43 programmers hired via the Freelancer.com platform, University of Bonn academics have discovered that developers […]
WebAuthn: What you need to know about the future of the passwordless Web
Hate passwords? We all do. So Microsoft, Google, and other browser makers have made WebAuthn to replace passwords with your […]
We’re not safe without information privacy
Left unchecked, in ten years, some of the biggest, most influential corporations will know (or have ready access to) not […]
2 Billion Unencrypted Records Leaked In Marketing Data Breach
Another day, another mega data breach. Except this one is different. More than two billion unencrypted records with very detailed […]
EDPB Releases Overview on the Implementation and Enforcement of the GDPR
On February 26, 2019, the European Data Protection Board presented its first overview on the implementation of the GDPR and […]
NIST’s Privacy Framework Starts to Take Shape
The Privacy Framework is being developed to be risk-based/outcome-based and non-prescriptive, unlike the GDPR. The National Institute of Standards and […]
Twitter Boosts Feature to Plug Personal Data Sharing
Twitter on Thursday added to efforts to address concerns over privacy protection on social media. The company announced an update […]