Robots Talk to Telemarketers So You Don’t Have To!
Jolly Roger Telephone Company provides a bot service to help you deal with marketers and save your time. How does […]
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UK’s Data protection bill amended to protect security researchers
The government is to amend the data protection bill to protect security researchers who work to uncover abuses of personal […]
FTC, OPC, PCPD collaborate on connected-toy enforcement
The Federal Trade Commission has settled its first enforcement action involving the privacy and data security of connected toys. On […]
New Year resolution: “I will collect details of transfers from the European Union into the UK and vice-versa”
Mrs May, at the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the Xmas recess, said in response to a question from a […]
Government requests for Facebook user data continue to increase worldwide
Facebook continues to see increased requests for user data from governments worldwide, according to its latest transparency report. The social […]
Tanzania: Personal Data Protection Law On Horizon
The government is in the process of drafting a personal data protection law that it says wasn’t intended to curb […]
No tracking, no revenue: Apple’s privacy feature costs ad companies millions
Internet advertising firms are losing hundreds of millions of dollars following the introduction of a new privacy feature from Apple […]
How Meltdown and Spectre Were Independently Discovered By Four Research Teams At Once
The uncanny coincidences among the Meltdown and Spectre discoveries raise questions about “bug collisions”—and the safety of the NSA’s hidden […]
Hacked and hacked off: without change this new data law will fail victims
The data protection bill must be amended so independent organisations acting in the public interest can help consumers to get […]
Ex-employee denied access to his 12,000 work emails
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner decided that work emails belong to employer, though at the same time acknowledging that emails generated in […]
Tech companies can barely keep up huge security flaws
Security experts scrambled on Friday to try to reassure computer users worldwide that a newly discovered type of security flaw […]
Why we need to stop using personally identifiable information as a form of access
Last year over 2.2 billion personal records were hacked. In 2018 expect data firms to move away from using identifiers […]