Why companies shouldn’t wait for regulation to step up their privacy practices
It shouldn’t take legislation to motivate companies to re-examine what they do with personal data. All Internet companies must take […]
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Hackers Can Turn Body Cameras Into Malware Spewing Machines
Once lauded as tools to enhance police accountability, body cameras have been facing increasing scrutiny from privacy advocates, and now […]
Why consumer messaging apps raise business data security fears?
Consumer apps such as WhatsApp are widely used by businesses as a free and easy method of mobile communication, but […]
How to turn off Google’s location tracking
Turning off location history won’t hide where you are when you use search, Maps or weather. Here’s how to stop […]
Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap
The way you press, scroll and type on a phone screen or keyboard can be as unique as your fingerprints […]
Highest reported breaches ever according to ICO annual report
UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has recently released its annual report for 2017 – 2018. One of the most obvious […]
International Privacy Experts Adopt Recommendations for Cross-Border Law Enforcement Requests for Data
The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications has adopted new recommendations to protect individual rights during criminal cross-border […]
To keep or not to keep: data retention challenges and solutions
The GDPR does not specify exact data retention timescales, and the reason for this – when you stop to think […]
Under GDPR, publishers are adopting consent management platforms
More publishers are feeling under pressure to adopt a consent-management platform to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation. In […]
This powerful new “face search” engine could be a privacy nightmare
Cybersecurity firm Trustwave has released an open source tool to find accounts of large volumes of people across social media […]
India wants localization of cloud storage data in possible blow to big tech firms
A panel working on the Indian government’s cloud computing policy wants data generated in India to be stored within the […]
Proposed UK surveillance laws give police power to access electronic devices
Proposed laws would also compel Facebook, Apple and Google to assist in decrypting private communications Law enforcement agencies would gain […]