The crux of the privacy objections is that the executive order does not guarantee that indiscriminate collection will be stopped; it merely attempts to narrow the scope of intelligence activity in EU-US data transfers.
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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.
The cover-up the security chief orchestrated was outed in 2017 when Uber appointed a new CEO and an internal investigation into the prior year's data breach was initiated. He was convicted on charges of obstruction of justice and knowing concealment of a felony.
The Binance crypto hack manipulated the Binance Smart Chain Token Hub bridge to pass forged proof messages. The attackers were then able to generate BNB directly to wallets under their control.
A new poll from Deloitte finds there is an immediate and significant cyber risk from "harvest now decrypt later" (HNDL) attacks, in which attackers steal encrypted information and simply sit on it until quantum computing advances make it trivial to crack.
Following Optus hack, the Telstra data breach appears to be limited to the signup process of a third-party rewards system for company staff, but two telcos losing personal information in two weeks has caused serious concern.
About 50% of those who had information stolen say they were victimized more than once. And the number of people that lost at least $10,000 to personal data theft jumped from 9% of respondents to 30% in 2021.
The fallout from the Log4j vulnerability has prompted bipartisan action to beef up open source software security. Proposed act would task CISA with developing a risk framework to evaluate open source code used by the federal government, and could be passed on to critical infrastructure businesses.
Meta stands accused of breaking Apple privacy rules, as a set of proposed class-action lawsuits describes it using its in-app browsers to track activity without user knowledge or consent.
The EU privacy watchdog opened 2022 with an order to Europol to delete stored data on persons not connected to or involved with a crime. But a mid-2022 reform of Europol's governing regulations retroactively legalized this data practice.
The breach of Optus, the second-largest telecoms company in Australia, created a leak of about 10 million records of personal information. The government says that it is time for new privacy rules.
