US told to appoint a damn Privacy Shield ombudsperson already or EU will take action
The European Commission’s second annual review of the Privacy Shield agreement made similar noises to last year’s, concluding the deal […]
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Here’s what Facebook knows about you
Facebook’s data collection, and the sharing of it with other firms, continues to be a source of controversy. A new […]
Facebook tries to explain why companies could erase your messages
“In the past day, we’ve been accused of disclosing people’s private messages to partners without their knowledge,” Ime Archibong, Facebook’s […]
Facebook let companies read and delete your private messages
“We don’t sell data to anyone,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress in April. What he didn’t mention is that […]
Brexit: EU reveals no-deal plans
The European Commission says it has started to implement its preparations for a no-deal Brexit – in case the UK […]
Cybersecurity in 2019
While you prepare your defenses against the next big thing, also pay attention to the longstanding threats that the industry […]
5 Ways Facebook Shared Your Data
Facebook for years gave major tech companies, including Yahoo and Netflix, greater access to people’s data than it disclosed, a […]
EU-US Privacy Shield passes second annual review
Despite the lack of a permanent ombudsperson, the European Commission confirmed on Wednesday that the Privacy Shield had passed its second […]
Facebook Sued by District of Columbia Over Cambridge Analytica
The attorney general of the District of Columbia, Karl Racine, sued Facebook on Wednesday for allowing the political consulting firm […]
This is the future of authentication, according to security experts
Passwords may not have been much of an annoyance back in the 1960s, when they were first believed to have […]
First UK GDPR enforcement action is against Canadian firm with apparently no EU presence
On 24 October 2018, the UK data protection enforcement body, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), issued an Enforcement Notice against […]
New powers for EU Cyberagency
On 10 December 2018, the European lawmakers reached a political agreement on the European Cybersecurity Act. The intention of this […]