Contentious WhatsApp privacy update has caused new consumer complaints to be filed by watchdog groups, which say that users are being unfairly pressured into accepting.
The EU-US data transfer decision at least grants a reprieve for big tech platforms that are built on targeted advertising such as Meta and Google, which are already under regulatory fire on multiple fronts.
Biden administration executive order looks to make immediate improvement to the nation's cyber defenses, with the headline item being new reporting requirements for federal government vendors that experience cybersecurity breaches.
Experian’s seventh annual “Data Breach Industry Forecast 2020,” outlines five key data breach trends to keep an eye on over the next 12 months involving smishing, drones, deepfakes, mobile POS systems and cryptocurrencies.
Mounting controversy over law enforcement agencies’ use of new facial recognition tool developed by Clearview AI, which allegedly scraped more than 3 billion photographs of people from Internet.
Many have raised privacy concerns over FBI’s plan to develop a social media surveillance tool which will proactively identify and reactively monitor persons of interest or suspects in ongoing cases.
New FCC rules will essentially force a new set of procedures and checks on the customer service employees that are targeted by the criminal hackers that engage in SIM swapping.
Illinois has made news recently for its strong legislation governing facial recognition technology. A proposed federal bill would apply similar regulation across the country.
All U.S. government agencies are expected to create annual action plans in 2019-2020 to support the new Federal Data Strategy. What are the possible privacy and security implications?
After an extended pause due to the coronavirus and the 2020 election, the prospect of a federal privacy law is once again being raised by Congress and the first contender is attempting to bridge the partisan divide.
