Blockchain and the GDPR: irreconcilable foes or a partnership with great potential?
At first glance, blockchain and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may seem like they would be wholly unrelated, complete […]
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Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
Starting with Chrome 69, when you log into a Google service (GMail, or so), Google Chrome is effectively logging you […]
How should we regulate facial recognition?
Facial recognition is everywhere — airports, police stations, and built into the largest cloud platforms in the world — but […]
Global study finds artificial intelligence is key cybersecurity weapon in the IoT era
As businesses struggle to combat increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity attacks, the severity of which is exacerbated by both the vanishing IT […]
Google still allows third-party apps scan your Gmail data
Gmail lets third-party developers integrate services into its email platform, such as trip planners and custom relationship management systems. Developers may […]
French cyber-security agency open-sources CLIP OS, a security hardened OS
The National Cybersecurity Agency of France, also known as ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information), has open-sourced […]
FPF Releases Understanding Facial Detection, Characterization, and Recognition Technologies and Privacy Principles for Facial Recognition Technology in Commercial Applications
FPF has published the infographic Understanding Facial Detection, Characterization, and Recognition Technologies along with Privacy Principles for Facial Recognition Technology […]
Forget the new iPhones, Apple’s best product is now privacy
Under Tim Cook’s leadership, Apple saw just how critical an issue user privacy would become. Now it’s at least as […]
Browsers aim to thwart tracking
New protections in Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers aim to prevent companies from turning “cookie” data files used to […]
Printing, document capture and compliance risk in the GDPR era
Printers, scanners and mobile devices that capture data from documents all store data in some way or other. How can […]
Building consumer trust and overcoming privacy barriers with on-device AI
New data and privacy legislation is helping to protect and give consumers what they want: less irrelevant marketing junk. However, […]
Child abuse algorithms: from science fiction to cost-cutting reality
In an age of austerity, and a climate of fear about child abuse, perhaps it is unsurprising that social workers […]