DOJ seized 94,000 Bitcoins from a New York couple accused of laundering 119,754 Bitcoins from the 2016 Bitfinex cryptocurrency theft currently valued at $4.5 billion.
The advertising industry would like to see Australia’s privacy law kept loose enough to allow "legitimate" data collection, a "tech neutral" posture and rules that are no stronger than the ones at play in the EU and UK.
The recent cyber attacks on Ukraine appeared to use distributed denial of service (DDoS) techniques to take several government websites offline for several hours.
The immediate order to cease use of Google Analytics pertains to a particular French website that was the subject of a GDPR complaint over data transfers, but signs show it expanding to the rest of the EU before long.
Lawmaker concerns about storage of biometric identification information and the use of a third-party contractor’s facial recognition technology has prompted a change in plans by the IRS.
Facebook is anticipating a loss of $10 billion to the Apple privacy changes in 2022, while Snapchat is in the midst of an overperforming Q1 that has seen the company's shares rally to increase 50% in value.
The International Data Transfer Agreement tools are meant to reflect the changes made to the UK's own version of the GDPR, and could be available in late March.
Even seemingly innocuous “free” tools can cause data privacy problems, as a company out of Germany has found out. The company has been ordered to pay a small GDPR fine due to its use of Google Fonts.
Increasingly a mission critical element, report notes that the return on investment (ROI) of mature digital privacy programs also continues to be high – particularly when privacy is aligned with security.
ITRC 2021 Data Breach Report says compromises increased by 68% from 2020 and 23% from 2017, the highest on record, and lack of transparency hampers identity theft protection.
