Organizations found to be responsible for a privacy breach now face a maximum penalty of AUD 50 million, 30% of adjusted annual domestic turnover, or three times the value of any benefit obtained through the misuse of the leaked information.
More than one-third of organizations are concerned about privacy compliance budget spending to meet the requirements of evolving data privacy laws around the globe.
Sharing of financial data in the Google-Citi deal quickly attracted the attention of consumers, lawmakers and regulators concerned about the potential privacy implications.
Use of 'pandemic drones' to enforce social distancing has come under fire over concerns of possible privacy violations. The police surveillance drones would yell at people not observing the rules and also have sensors to detect health conditions.
China’s digital ID trial has stoked privacy concerns, and questions have also been raised about what may happen if a citizen's ID is revoked by the government.
Schrems has filed a case against Apple in the EU, alleging that the company's unique device tracking ID is in and of itself a breach of privacy law regardless of how it is used.
noyb has leaked documents that show Facebook approached the EDPB with their concept of “user contracts” that sidestep GDPR rules for user consent after numerous receptive meetings with the Irish DPC.
New report shows government agencies are regularly using cloud extraction tools as surveillance technology to analyze and extract private data from major cloud services.
While many privacy concerns remain unaddressed for contact tracing apps, experts are now questioning the technical and logistics issues to justify their existence.
Plaintiffs in New Jersey and California are suing Meta for alleged privacy violations after anonymous contractors stepped forward to reveal intimate videos from the company's AI smart glasses are being surreptitiously shared. The privacy lawsuit claims that Meta's marketing tagline of "designed for privacy, controlled by you" is false.
