Far more than 87m Facebook users had data compromised
Far more than 87 million people may have had their Facebook data harvested by Cambridge Analytica, according to evidence from […]
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EU to force tech firms to hand over terror suspects’ messages
The European commission is seeking to force technology companies wherever they are based in the EU to hand over emails, […]
Advisory group releases IoT safety and design risk toolkit
Hundreds of initiatives have been launched over the past several years to tackle the issue of internet-of-things security in the […]
Take Action to Close the Largest Cause of Data Security Incidents – Your Employees
If you work at a typical company, employee actions and inadvertent present the greatest threat to the security of your […]
GDPR Privacy Policy Fail: Only 34% of EU Sites Compliant
Just a third of websites in the EU and even fewer in the UK have their privacy policy in order […]
Facebook admits tracking users and non-users off-site
Statement comes as company faces US lawsuit over facial recognition feature launched in 2011 and planned to expand to EU. […]
Google is testing self-destructing emails in new Gmail
Google is working on a brand new design for the web version of Gmail. You can configure the expiration date […]
Democrats plan to push privacy rules after Facebook hearings
House Democrats plan to use this week’s Facebook hearings as the starting point for an aggressive push for privacy legislation, […]
Russian hackers mass-exploit routers in homes, govs, and infrastructure
Hackers working on behalf of the Russian government are compromising large numbers of routers, switches, and other network devices belonging […]
DPO Confessional: Think globally, but direct market locally
Applying the consent basis to data processing has territorial implications. Unfortunately, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation contains some ambiguity […]
McAfee: 26% of companies have suffered cloud data theft
Enterprises are moving their data to the cloud, but not everybody is certain that the cloud is as secure as […]
DNS: Strengthening the Weakest Link in Internet Privacy
For many, the conversation about online privacy centers around a few high-profile companies, and rightly so. We consciously engage with […]