Equifax says more private data was stolen in 2017 breach than first revealed
The credit rating agency said it didn’t originally announce “potential” data points, like tax identification numbers, that “may have been […]
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Mixpanel analytics accidentally slurped up passwords
The passwords of some people using sites monitored by popular analytics provider Mixpanel were mistakenly pulled into its software. Until […]
Company to Link Clothes to a Blockchain
In a test due to begin this year, L.L. Bean plans to ship clothing with sewn-in sensors that send data […]
Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy
Commercial software is nearly flawless at telling the gender of white men, a new study says. But not so for […]
Samsung and Roku Smart TVs Vulnerable to Hacking
Security and privacy testing by Consumer Reports of these smart-TV brands, along with LG, Sony, and Vizio, also reveals broad-based […]
European Commission outlines blockchain development plans
The European Commission outlined several of its efforts to develop a common approach on blockchain technology for the European Union. […]
U.S. Federal Government Seeks Comments re: Deployment of Automated Driving Systems
NHTSA Removing Regulatory Barriers for Vehicles with Automated Driving Systems Comment Deadline : 5 March 2018 Summary : National Highway […]
41% of Canadian companies had sensitive data exposed
Report estimates that almost 87 per cent per cent of Canadian companies suffered at least one successful breach Source: Study […]
AI Reads Privacy Policies So You Don’t Have To
Polisis, a machine-learning-trained tool, automatically produces readable charts of where your data ends up for any online service. Source: Polisis […]
Swedish DPA criticizes proposed data retention reform
The Swedish data protection authority (‘Datainspektionen’) published, on 31 January 2018, its opinion on the Ministry of Justice’s report on […]
Ireland publishes Data Protection Bill
The Government published, on 30 January 2018, the Data Protection Bill 2018 (‘the Bill’) to give further effect to the […]
Commission lobbies for police access to website owners list
The European Commission has suggested that law enforcement authorities could soon have restricted access to the WHOIS database that identifies […]