People are increasingly aware of consumer privacy issues, but also overwhelmingly feel that they do not have the tools to protect themselves and look to government to intervene.
Senior Correspondent at CPO Magazine
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.
While there was no unauthorized access of user accounts for the third party breach, Dave’s users can expect phishing and identity fraud scams based on the information that was breached.
The seemingly odd focus on relative trivialities during the Twitter hack (“OG” usernames and crypto scamming) is due to the culprit being an inexperienced minor.
Big Tech companies answered to the House Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee in Wednesday's hearing, which surprised observers with the intensity of its questioning.
Privacy advocate groups allege that UK Test and Trace rushed the process and did not conduct the necessary data protection impact assessment that the GDPR requires for collection of personal data on this sort of scale.
In line with the Trump administration's recent overtures toward a nationwide TikTok ban, the new bill if passed would ban TikTok on all devices throughout the US government.
"Meow" cyber attack seeks out unsecured databases and simply wipes them out without seeking either fame or material gain, as a form of activism or perhaps just for fun.
Much-needed EDPB guidance on the Schrems II judgment has been released and the picture looks about as grim as possible for impacted companies thus far.
New discovery of over 142 million guest credentials on the dark web expands the scope of the 2019 MGM data breach and appears to confirm that a number of MGM Resorts properties were affected.
Biometric privacy lawsuit names Amazon, Google parent company Alphabet and Microsoft as violators of BIPA for their use of IBM's facial recognition database to train their own facial recognition systems.
