Toying With Children’s Data: Lessons From the FTC’s First Connected Toys Settlement Action
Every year, especially around the holidays, more and more products that connect to the internet hit the market. For adults, […]
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Lessons learnt from UK cyber breach enforcement case
On 10 January 2018, the UK ICO issued a fine to Carphone Warehouse amounting to £400,000, close to the maximum […]
This former identity thief now fights the crimes he helped perfect
Few people know more about identity theft than Brett Shannon Johnson, a convicted identity thief who was once on the […]
Can the Chinese government now get access to your Grindr profile?
The world’s leading gay dating app says users shouldn’t worry they just got bought by a Chinese firm. Experts aren’t […]
Inside Uber’s $100,000 Payment to a Hacker, and the Fallout
How Uber grappled with a 2016 hack is under scrutiny and has cast a chill over how other companies deal […]
Commentary: Blockchain Could Replace Social Security Numbers
In the wake of the Equifax breach and countless others compromising Americans’ privacy, one thing has become clear: It’s time […]
AI offers opportunity to increase privacy for users
Technology pundits frequently lament that our increasingly digital world has eroded consumer privacy by enabling businesses to collect and use […]
Website operators are in the dark about privacy violations by third-party scripts
Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone looking over your shoulder, and […]
Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft is introducing a Private Conversations feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol. Source: Signal >> […]
Identity theft? Show me the records!
There’s been a lot of talk about identity theft lately. Maybe you’ve even heard from customers affected by it. Your […]
FBI chief calls unbreakable encryption ‘urgent public safety issue’
The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an “urgent public […]
NIST releases Guide to LTE Security
NIST released Guide to LTE Security, a report that provides information to organizations about the security capabilities of cellular networks […]