Apple attributes iPhone security to its "walled garden" approach. Among other claims, Apple says that an Android device is up to 47 times more likely to contract malware and that allowing app sideloading would attract a wave of cyber crime to the iOS platform.
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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.
Annual Privacy Governance Report from IAPP and EY focuses on the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on privacy professions, along with the Schrems II decision and the resulting complications it has created for data transfers.
Verizon Visible experienced an attack recently that saw customer accounts taken over and orders placed using stored payment information. Verizon has verified that the hacked accounts were compromised by a credential stuffing campaign.
While much of the rest of the world grapples with the level of access law enforcement should have to facial recognition technology, the Moscow Metro system has leapt ahead to using it as a form of fare payment.
The use of smart doorbells may be facing new restrictions in the UK, due to a recent court ruling that found an Amazon Ring doorbell pointed at a neighbor's property constituted an invasion of privacy.
Proposed fruits of the Irish DPC's three-year investigation into Facebook's consent and transparency violations are GDPR fines that would amount to a maximum of about $36 million to $42 million, or what the company makes roughly every two hours.
Social media and the internet advertising industry now almost entirely run on algorithmic decision-making models. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are advocating for a "right to explanation" to shed light on them.
An in-depth study from the University of Oxford has examined 24,000 Apple App Store and Google Play apps, and found that Apple's "walled garden" approach has not necessarily made a difference in terms of app privacy.
Fraudsters stole cryptocurrency from 6,000 users in a Coinbase hack attributed to a multi-factor authentication flaw that allowed them to exploit the account recovery process.
Google's Threat Analysis Group has announced it is providing free USB security keys to a collection of politicians, activists and other high-risk individuals likely to be targeted by nation-state hackers.









