Clearview AI will be fined £7,552,800, and has been ordered to stop collecting facial recognition data in the UK and to delete all of the data it had previously collected.
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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.
Conti Ransomware Group Voluntarily Shuttered, but Members Expected to Splinter off To Smaller Groups
Security researcher claims that the Conti ransomware attack on Costa Rica was an intentional smokescreen to cover a reorganization into smaller ransomware groups.
DuckDuckGo sells itself on its lack of user tracking. However, some new security research reveals that policy does not apply equally to Microsoft trackers.
Twitter has in recent years has begun periodically requiring phone number checks for "account security." What users have not always been aware of is that these items have been added in to Twitter's internal personalized advertising system.
In the case of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the lawsuit asserts that Zuckerberg personally oversaw the engineering work that ultimately led to the exposure of Facebook user data.
Verizon’s DBIR finds that 82% of data breaches logged in 2021 involved a "human element" such as falling for phishing, re-use of stolen credentials, insider malfeasance or simply causing a configuration error.
Bad bot traffic makes up half of all internet activity, and is nearly double that of "good bots" that perform legitimate functions such as indexing and automated responses.
Swiss banking secrecy laws began to see significant erosion in 2018, and are facing another substantial blow as the country's government is proposing to allow its spy agency to monitor financial transactions.
Study finds RTB adtech systems share online behavior data 294 billion times per day in the U.S. and 197 billion times per day in Europe. Average internet user in the US is exposed 747 times each day; in Europe it is 376 times per day.
While the CFAA and all of its troubled language remains in place, the DOJ has announced that security researchers who do not have malicious intent do not have anything to fear anymore.
