Twitter will pay a GDPR fine of €450,000 (about $546,000) in the first EU cross-border enforcement action brought against a tech giant.
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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.
Apple's mandatory privacy consent requirements are expected to roll out sometime in early 2021 and apps that do not comply with user tracking is expected to be removed from the app store.
There is a common feeling that Apple’s new privacy labels are unfair. WhatsApp is among the first of the major social media apps to give voice to this sentiment, describing them as "anti-competitive."
The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 is now federal law, meaning that US government "smart devices" will be subject to a new and more stringent set of security standards.
Real time bidding is facing a smattering of privacy complaints in the EU based on a lack of required consumer consent under the terms of the GDPR.
Medical data leaks are among the fastest-growing segments of cyber crime, and for good reason. Health care systems tend to operate on outdated systems that have inadequate security elements.
French data regulator CNIL has hit tech giants Google and Amazon with some heavy penalties for placing non-essential tracking cookies. Google will pay €100 million and Amazon will pay €35 million.
GitHub's State of the Octoverse report has found that open source vulnerabilities are continuing to go undetected for as long as four years on average and developers have an average patch time of roughly a month.
There have been rumblings about antitrust lawsuits targeting Silicon Valley's biggest companies. The first has finally emerged. If the suit is ultimately successful it could break up Facebook.
The current wave of action against mobile apps stems from an early November promise from the CAC to "clean up" those that are committing privacy violations or facilitating criminal activity.
