Rash of data breaches forcing agencies to rethink how they verify employees’ identities
Joe Stuntz, a former policy lead for the OMB’s cyber and national security unit, said the future of identity management […]
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India probes report on breach of national identity database
India on Thursday began investigating a report that access to its database of the identity details of more than 1 […]
Belgian privacy regulator threatens fines for eavesdropping apps
The Belgian Commission for the Protection of Privacy has threatened to take action against eavesdropping apps that listen for what […]
Internet Users in China Expect to Be Tracked. Now, They Want Privacy.
Chinese are demanding better protections even as the government and tech giants like Alibaba and Tencent gather ever more data. […]
Data Breach Affected More Than 240,000 Homeland Security Workers
The breach also affected non-DHS employees who communicated with the department’s inspector general. Source: Data Breach Affected More Than 240,000 […]
Researchers Discover Two Major Flaws in the World’s Computers
Called Meltdown, the first and most urgent flaw affects nearly all microprocessors made by Intel. The second, Spectre, affects most […]
‘European’ Data Privacy Standards Implemented in Laws Outside Europe
The implementation of ‘European’ (2nd generation) data privacy principles in laws outside Europe continues to be substantial, including in high-GDP […]
Privacy in 2018: Expect the unexpected
Making predictions for the year ahead is possibly as desirable as unreliable. In a world of unlimited data and advanced […]
Predictions 2018: What tighter European GDPR will mean for marketers
The forthcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to be one of the biggest data privacy reforms set […]
Australian organisations unprepared for GDPR
Faced with the double whammy of complying with Australia’s upcoming data breach notification requirement and Europe’s new data protection regime, […]
Italy passes draft Do Not Call law
4 January 2018 The Senate passed, on 22 December 2017, a draft law on New Provisions on the Registration and […]
On building an internet of safe and useful things
With the booming market for voice-controlled virtual personal assistant devices like Google’s Home and Amazon’s Echo, and warnings from the […]