The tech giants are claiming that the antitrust bills would harm consumer security and privacy, by "breaking" services such as Gmail and search bars.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
A new proposed privacy bill, The Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, would restrict ad targeting to context and to generalized location data that goes no further than the city level.
When athletes arrive at the 2022 Winter Olympics they will be required to download an app called MY2022. Meant for contact tracing purposes, it will be packed with some unexpected extras: security flaws and possible censorship features.
DLA Piper finds that GDPR fines were up 7x in 2021. Data regulators are also receiving more data breach notifications, a trend that has steadily increased each year.
The new iCloud private relay feature is unpopular with mobile operators and some of the industry's biggest names are petitioning European regulators to see it as a threat to national digital sovereignty.
The Austrian data protection authority has found that the IP addresses and identifiers in Google Analytics cookie data were sufficiently personal to constitute a GDPR violation for purposes of transfer to the US.
The REvil ransomware gang has been a point of special focus for international law enforcement and possibly been dealt a fatal blow as Russian authorities have rounded up 14 members residing in the country.
The destructive malware that is currently being spread in Ukraine acts like ransomware in that it locks up target systems by encrypting key files, but there is no payment option.
Russia's current conflict with Ukraine is so far playing out with cyber attacks rather than physical warfare. A series of defacement attacks on government websites appears to be the opening salvo.
New report indicates that Twitter may have great value as a vulnerability management tool. Twitter mentions are twice as good as CVSS when it comes to measuring an organization's potential exploitability.
