How Google Fights Password Thieves
Google and researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, teamed up to study how Google accounts become compromised, shedding light […]
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FTC Releases Annual Privacy and Data Security Update
The Federal Trade Commission today released its annual report summarizing its privacy and data security work in 2017. Source: FTC […]
Intel CEO Refuses To Answer Questions On Whether NSA Can Access Processors
During a Q&A in which he’d promised to answer any questions put to him, The CEO of computer chip company […]
MEP calls for ‘clear and mandatory baseline IT security requirements’ for devices
Device manufacturers selling in or exporting from the EU could be required to abide by “clear and mandatory baseline IT […]
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, […]
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 […]