Data Sharing: What’s the Worst that Could Happen?
Startups are producing lots of transit data that could help inform government policy — but not everyone agrees on what […]
GDPR News
How privatized cannabis sales threaten your privacy
As Canada moves to legalize marijuana and online sales become commonplace, privacy concerns can’t be an afterthought; they must be […]
Should vendors be able to pass along costs of GDPR compliance?
What wasn’t obvious when EU General General Data Protection Regulation came into force, was that vendors would swiftly pass along […]
Card-Skimming Malware Campaign Hits Dozens of Sites Daily
In the past six months, more than 7,000 sites that run Magento e-commerce software have been infected with malicious JavaScript […]
Russia May Unban Telegram…if it Shares Encryption Keys with the FSB
Russia’s telecom watchdog said that it may reverese the ban on Telegram if the company shares its encryption keys with […]
Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism
Google and Facebook are easy scapegoats, but companies have been collecting, selling, and reusing your personal data for decades, and […]
Tech industry told ‘privacy is not absolute’ and end-to-end encryption ‘should be rare’
An international network of intelligence agencies, so-called Five Eyes nations – the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in […]
Mind reading: is no data safe?
According to a report in The South China Post, Chinese government backed organisations are using mind reading technology to help […]
Apple will require all apps to have a privacy policy as of October 3
Apple is cracking down on apps that don’t communicate to users how their personal data is used, secured or shared. […]
Irish DPA investigates Facebook’s refusal of Subject Access Request
When Facebook refuses Subject Access Request from one of its users, the alarm bells start to ring. Particularly when this […]
UK: Complaints Double, Domain Registrations Drop and Spam Remains Constant since GDPR
New figures reveal that complaints received by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the United Kingdom have doubled since the […]
AI for Cybersecurity Is a Hot New Thing — and a Dangerous Gamble
Machine learning and artificial intelligence can help guard against cyberattacks, but hackers can foil security algorithms by targeting the data […]