A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe
The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union, says president of the Free Software Foundation, […]
GDPR News
Facebook does not plan to apply GDPR globally
The news comes despite a January announcement of a global privacy center. The beleaguered CEO says the social network ‘wanted […]
Facebook apologises for storing draft videos users thought they had deleted
Facebook continues to deal with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica files, announcing policy changes and bug fixes aimed at […]
Deeper Dive: Minimizing Risk
For organizations of any size, making sense of the constantly evolving cyber risk landscape can seem daunting. With new threats […]
Can Police Use a Dead Man’s Finger to Unlock His iPhone? Sometimes.
Dead men have no privacy rights. But they can sometimes unlock their iPhones with fingerprint authentication. As Forbes reported on […]
Facebook Isn’t Telling the Whole Story About Stopping Partnering With Data Brokers
The company publicly announced last week that it was shutting down its Partner Categories program to “help improve people’s privacy […]
U.S. Department of Commerce Posts Update of Actions to Support the Privacy Shield Frameworks
On March 26, 2018, the U.S. Department of Commerce posted an update on the actions it has taken between January […]
Can Europe Lead on Privacy?
The Federal Trade Commission merely requires internet companies to have a privacy policy available for consumers to see. A company […]
Lessons for Facebook from an academic social network
With Facebook under fire for inadequate privacy protections, how has one of the oldest academic social networks avoided the same […]
Facebook Is Not the Problem. Lax Privacy Rules Are.
If we learn anything from the recent controversies surrounding the social media giant, it should be that America’s privacy laws […]
13 simple ways to protect your family’s data
Technology use comes with privacy risks, but don’t worry — the answer isn’t living the life of a Luddite. If […]
Machine learning as a service: Can privacy be taught?
Machine learning requires massive amounts of data to teach the model. But we’re often uploading that data to machine learning […]