Cybersecurity Firm Finds Way to Alter WhatsApp Messages
A cybersecurity company said it had discovered a flaw in WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service with 1.5 billion users, that […]
GDPR News
CNIL goes after smaller firms on GDPR compliance
Google and Facebook may have bullseyes on their backs in Europe, but it’s two mid-sized French startups that received the […]
Italy adopts GDPR implementation law
The board of the Ministries approved the final text of Italian privacy law integrating the GDPR raising major concerns on […]
When malware turns artificial intelligence into a weapon
AI can be used to automatically detect and combat malware — but this does not mean hackers can also use […]
Nearly all apps do not comply with GDPR, finds study
No less than 98% of leading apps do not comply with GDPR, finds a study from Crownpeak. The study also […]
Facebook wants users’ private banking and financial data
Facebook says banks and credit-card companies have shown interest in partnerships that would boost the sharing of users’ account balances, […]
ICANN loses injunction bid in dispute over WHOIS data in Germany
A German appeal’s court has rejected a bid from the internet’s global domain name organisation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned […]
Dutch DPA launches ‘ex officio’ GDPR-compliance investigation
Dutch Data Protection Authority started an “ex officio” investigation into compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation in the […]
Irish DPA receives over 1,100 reports of data breaches under GDPR
More than 1,100 reports of data breaches involving people’s personal information have been received by the Data Protection Commission in […]
Privacy technology market penetration growing rapidly
TrusyArc and The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), conveyed a research that examined how privacy technology is bought and […]
CNIL Serves Formal Notice to Marketing Companies to Obtain User’s Consent for Ad Targeting
On July 19, 2018, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) announced that it served a formal notice to two advertising […]
Breach reporting: lessons learned
Amongst the most immediate and visible impacts of the GDPR is the requirement to report data breaches to the Information […]