Google’s new “Privacy Sandbox” privacy standards proposal is a compromise solution for programmatic advertising while respecting users’ privacy when they browsing the web.
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Nicole Lindsey is a journalist and writer for more than 10 years, focusing on the intersection of technology, innovation and privacy. She has a background in information technology and has worked with various software companies and tech startups on their public relations and communications initiatives.
Israel may become a big export player for both offensive and defensive cyber weapons used for cyber espionage as it now takes as little as four months for approval of sale.
After years of fighting, Facebook has lost its appeal against the class action lawsuit over the use of facial recognition technology. The company could face billion dollars of penalty if they fail to win the case.
Recent Instagram data scraping by HYP3R has raised many privacy concerns as the trusted Facebook marketing partner was found scraping and re-packaging social media data for advertisers.
Many have raised privacy concerns over FBI’s plan to develop a social media surveillance tool which will proactively identify and reactively monitor persons of interest or suspects in ongoing cases.
New iOS 13 will limit VoIP apps from running in the background and thus close a loophole that allows third-party apps to exploit background access to collect data on users.
New UN report discloses how North Korea has financed its WMD program with more than $2 billion from cybercrime against world’s largest financial institutions and cryptocurrency exchanges.
Cathay Pacific makes it clear in their new privacy policy that the airline reserves the right to collect data on every single passenger, all in the name of an effort to know as much as they can especially for the high-end VIP passengers.
EU court recently ruled for website operators to seek user consent before transferring personal data via the Facebook ‘like’ button. This could have an impact to operators’ commercial gains and user experience when using the websites.
The massive Capital One data breach has triggered many to question the benefits of buying cyber insurance, the risks in storing data in the cloud and what consumers should do when faced with a breach.
