799 data breaches notified by Ireland’s Government departments in 2019
The Department of Social Protection was responsible for nearly half the data protection breaches notified by Government departments across the […]
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TikTok expands parental controls to include search, commenting and account privacy
TikTok announced it’s expanding its parental control feature set known as Family Pairing to give parents additional tools to manage […]
New Report Finds That Criminals Leverage AI for Malicious Use – And It’s Not Just Deep Fakes
A jointly developed new report by Europol, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and Trend Micro […]
Google is adding end-to-end encryption to its Android Messages app
“We recognize that your conversations are private,” says Google. Google is upping the security for at least some of the […]
The Covid App Ecosystem Has Become a Privacy Minefield
An analysis of nearly 500 Covid-related apps worldwide shows major differences in how much data they expect you to give […]
Ticketmaster fined £1.25m over personal data breach
Ticketmaster has been fined £1.25m for failing to keep the personal data of millions of customers secure. The online events […]
Rights Activists Slam EU Plan for Access to Encrypted Chats
Digital rights campaigners on Monday criticized a proposal by European Union governments that calls for communications companies to provide authorities […]
EU inches closer to ban on end-to-end encryption
The Council of the European Union appears to have a near-completed resolution that would propose a ban on the use […]
Nearly half of firms had data breach in last 12 months
Data breaches continue to dominate headlines around the world. Recent findings analyzed by Atlas VPN reveal that as many as […]
Twitter could face its first GDPR penalty within days
European data protection regulators have inched toward an enforcement decision for a Twitter breach that the company publicly disclosed in […]
Zoom lied to users about end-to-end encryption for years, FTC says
Zoom has agreed to upgrade its security practices in a tentative settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which alleges that […]
Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites
Software firm’s director thought name using HTML would be ‘fun and playful’. But Companies House has forced a company to change […]