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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EU Governments to Negotiate With Parliament Over Digital Economy Data Transfer Law
The Council of the European Union (EU Council), which represents the governments of the 28 EU member countries, has decided […]
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 […]
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 […]
Big Brother on wheels: Why your car company may know more about you than your spouse
Privacy experts believe tens of millions of Americans are already being monitored by automakers. Source: Big Brother on wheels: Why […]
Dutch plans to implement new payments laws raise data protection concerns
The government in the Netherlands has been advised to review the way it intends to implement new EU payment services […]
UK’s DPA expands guidance on data breaches
United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (‘ICO’) on 12 January 2018 announced that it had expanded its guidance on personal data […]
The Identity We Can’t Change
This report is a continuation of the work begun in previous years by ADC in the field of biometrics. We […]
Americans prefer sharing life’s milestones with their social network than in person
The rise of social media has forged a seismic shift in the way people share life’s milestones with friends and […]
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 […]