WhatsApp has been in a year-long battle against Israeli firm NSO Group over unauthorized use of its cyber surveillance tools on the platform. Fellow Silicon Valley firms are filing amicus briefs in support.
Big Tech companies are feeling more pressure in Europe with the proposal of two new antitrust policies. Together the "Digital Markets Act" and "Digital Services Act" would limit use of personal and business data.
A federal database meant to keep track of COVID-19 vaccine treatments is receiving some pushback from state governments, due to privacy concerns and state data protection laws.
NSA issued an advisory that hackers were exploiting VMWare’s and SolarWinds’ Orion vulnerabilities to perform federated login and execute attacks as part of SolarWinds hack.
Facebook has come up with a clever workaround that takes advantage of Brexit; it's simply going to move local users to California to evade EU privacy rules.
Recent SEC filing disclosed that 18,000 customers installed the SolarWinds backdoor while Microsoft said that it alerted 40 customers targeted by the Russian state-sponsored hackers.
The FTC is expanding its investigations into the business dealings of Big Tech. Nine of the industry's biggest names have been asked to provide the agency with information about their data practices.
Facebook has accused Apple of anticompetitive behavior, pointing to an expectation of disproportionate damage done to small businesses that rely on personalized ads.
Twitter will pay a GDPR fine of €450,000 (about $546,000) in the first EU cross-border enforcement action brought against a tech giant.
Apple's mandatory privacy consent requirements are expected to roll out sometime in early 2021 and apps that do not comply with user tracking is expected to be removed from the app store.
