Less than 100 days to go, and so far only two European countries have adapted their laws to be ready for GDPR. While the GDPR aims to harmonize rules across the European Union and to benefit companies to deal with just one law, many member states are eyeing possible exemptions as they change their national laws.
New GDPR complaint filed against Amazon alleged that the company’s email security failed to encrypt emails sent between the platform's third-party sellers and their customers.
As the GDPR deadline draws nearer, issues surrounding privacy in the workplace have taken the fore yet again, raising the stakes for employee monitoring.
Both breach notifications and GDPR fines have increased in the past year, however, survey has shown a striking disparity in the number of data breaches reported among EU member nations.
DLA Piper finds that GDPR fines were up 7x in 2021. Data regulators are also receiving more data breach notifications, a trend that has steadily increased each year.
With the GDPR coming into full effect in May 2018, organizations are ramping up demand for GDPR jobs including DPOs, business analysts and project managers.
New study suggests that many websites are navigating around GDPR by tailoring the design of their cookie consent tools and using dark patterns to provide a misleading veneer of a consent agreement.
Insurance giant Geico mailed notifications of a data breach to its customers, indicating that an unknown number of driver's license numbers were compromised and might be used for fraudulent unemployment claims.
While cybersecurity practitioners have uncovered many ways that the predictive technology can benefit security teams, threat actors have also been swift to adopt generative AI as the newest tool in their arsenals for launching sophisticated attacks.
23andMe will pay $30 million to settle a data breach lawsuit from the 2023 credential stuffing attack that exposed the personal and genetic information of 6.9 million customers.










