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 […]
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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 […]
The GDPR: Your best friend (but you know that)
For those on the margins of the privacy community, there is a narrative that repeats about the EU General Data […]