Nearly 100% of companies suffered at least one data breach in past 18 months. Most cited inadequate identity management and the lack of visibility as the major cloud security threat.
Meta has issued statements indicating that a stoppage of EU-US data transfers would be "devastating" and could cause it to pull services from the region, even specifically naming Facebook and Instagram as products that could become inaccessible.
Amazon announced its facial recognition suite Rekognition is able to read fear as an added emotion. This capability has raised new privacy concerns if implemented by law enforcement agencies.
Amazon has confirmed that it was impacted by the MOVEit third party breach that took place in 2023, and that a large amount of employee data was included with a massive trove that was offered for sale on a hacking forum.
Amazon Key is still in the early stages yet there are so many questions of hacking, insurance risks and liability if problems were to occur during delivery.
Amazon has settled a FTC privacy lawsuit involving repeated breaches of Ring video cameras by both employees and hackers. The order would require Amazon to pay $5.8 million in restitution and delete a great deal of the video it has collected over the past several years.
Researchers discovered thousands of Amazon RDS snapshots shared publicly either accidentally or deliberately that were inadvertently leaking clients’ personally identifiable information (PII).
A leaked survey shows Amazon Ring assessing demand for potential new features including facial recognition and license plate scanning tools for their future product versions.
Amazon Sidewalk is about to create a nation-spanning "smart network" connecting the devices of its customers. The project is unprecedented, both in terms of capability and in terms of the privacy concerns it is raising.
Recent German privacy case has led to Amazon, Google and Apple stopping human review of recordings from voice assistants. Will this change the game for the technology or should users give up their privacy for better experience?
