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Data Privacy Insights

Mozilla Solves the Manifest V3 Puzzle To Save Ad Blockers From Chromapocalypse

February 15, 2023

The problem with Manifest V3 is that it limits the number of built-in and user-added rules for extensions installed by an individual user. Since at the core of any ad blocker extension is the filtering rules that teach it to detect ads, such restrictions can become a real snag.

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Data Privacy Insights

Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues in Electric Vehicles

February 13, 2023

Here's what businesses, organizations and governmental entities should be considering as they navigate privacy and cybersecurity challenges encountered in the transition to electric vehicles and the supporting infrastructure.

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Cyber Security Insights

Cyber Insurance: The Policy Changes Needed To Save the Industry

February 9, 2023

In late December last year, Mario Greco, the chief executive of insurance giant Zurich sent shockwaves through the business world when he announced that cyberattacks are set to become uninsurable. Cyber insurance providers are left with no choice but to tighten their policies, or risk going bankrupt.

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Data Privacy Insights

Digital License Plates: Will This New Way to Track Vehicles Enhance or Undermine Privacy?

February 8, 2023

While the vulnerability of digital license plates to hackers poses some risks to consumers, the emergence of this new technology holds real promise for more-effective and less-intrusive vehicle tracking, both for law enforcement and the public.

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Cyber Security Insights

How Quantum Computing Could Affect the Automotive Landscape

February 7, 2023

The automotive industry uses cryptography extensively both in external and internal communication, as well as other uses. Due to the relative rigidity of automotive products, there is an urgent need to fit the vehicles to the quantum computing era as soon as possible.

Data Privacy Insights

Data Clean Rooms Alone Would Not Fix Meta’s Privacy Problems

February 6, 2023

Even if Meta were using a data clean room for marketing and advertising purposes, it would not be adequate for GDPR compliance. And without GDPR compliance, Meta can’t claim legitimate interest as a legal basis for lawful secondary data processing.

Data Privacy Insights

Data Privacy’s Tipping Point: Where We Go From Here

February 3, 2023

New research provides evidence we’re entering the Great Privacy Awakening. In the absence of a federal law, consumers are taking action: From using ad-blockers, and deleting their browser history to using their privacy rights and requesting their data be deleted.

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Data Privacy Insights

Privacy Notices and Consent Forms: Why, Even Though They Are Unwieldy, They Will Most Likely Stay With Us in the Years To Come

February 2, 2023

We should strive for a human-centric, value-driven, yet flexible and business friendly standards backed by laws and regulatory enforcement. Yet abandoning the old ways of relying on privacy notices and consent forms will remain contentious, controversial and, if it happens, still take a lot of time.

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Data Privacy Insights

AI in HR – How To Make Use of the New Hype in a Compliant Manner

February 1, 2023

The use of AI in HR is becoming increasingly popular as organizations look for ways to streamline and automate their HR processes. What are some of the risks related to privacy, bias, and employment law? Here's some best practice advice on how organizations can use AI in HR in a responsible and ethical manner.

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Data Protection Insights

Navigating the Data Privacy Landscape in 2023

January 31, 2023

Against a backdrop of looming privacy regulation, VFS Global’s Group Data Protection Officer, Astrid Gobardhan, looks at the various benefits of privacy investment for organisations – from better security, improved customer confidence, right through to brand enhancement and reduced operational costs.

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Mozilla Solves the Manifest V3 Puzzle To Save Ad Blockers From Chromapocalypse

Privacy and Cybersecurity Issues in Electric Vehicles

Cyber Insurance: The Policy Changes Needed To Save the Industry

Digital License Plates: Will This New Way to Track Vehicles Enhance or Undermine Privacy?

How Quantum Computing Could Affect the Automotive Landscape

Data Clean Rooms Alone Would Not Fix Meta’s Privacy Problems

Data Privacy’s Tipping Point: Where We Go From Here

AI in HR – How To Make Use of the New Hype in a Compliant Manner

Navigating the Data Privacy Landscape in 2023

Data Breach at Largest Indian Nuclear Power Plant Leaks Sensitive Files

Cyber Attack on Major Japanese Refrigerated Logistics Provider Disrupts KFC and Other Food Chains

Why Purple Teaming Is Becoming the Operating Model for Cyber Defense

CISA and NSA Release “Best Practices” Guidance for Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure Programs