The first tranche of privacy reforms introduced to Parliament provides the OAIC with new penalties for data violators and a new privacy code for children, along with the addition of a new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy.
Privacy groups are raising alarms about some EU aid programs. Funds, equipment and training are reportedly going to repressive governments and being used explicitly for domestic surveillance.
Home security cameras upload data when motion is detected, creating a predictable pattern that increases privacy risks by allowing third parties to know when someone was present at home without the need to watch the footage.
The California location tracking issue dates back to 2018. Over 40 states have already reached similar privacy settlements with the tech giant, with Google having now paid over $600 million in total.
U.S. doing an “adequate” job for Privacy Shield but could be doing more to protect the data transfer of EU users, including reform of the FISA regulations.
Revoke of Privacy Shield is the second time in 5 years that the European Court of Justice has killed an EU-US data sharing agreement due to concerns of US government surveillance.
Top court in Europe struck down the Privacy Shield agreement that governed EU-US data transfers and can potentially limits data sharing with other countries via companies in the US.
The ISACA report finds that though the desire to beef up departments is there, a major privacy skills gap remains as the labor market for privacy professionals is tight (as are budgets).
China publicly accuses CIA of 11 years of cyber espionage however the report has little to offer as hard evidence and there is no previous reference on the alleged hacking group.
A hacktivist group posted evidence of its involvement in the X attack in the form of screenshots on a Telegram channel. It has previously used DDoS attacks to target an assortment of organizations with a strong focus on the US, UAE, Israel and Ukraine.
