New study provides some very sharp and eye-popping numbers showing that sloppy privacy practices can be tied directly to an 80% increase in the likelihood of data breaches.
Facial recognition provider Clearview AI is facing a joint privacy investigation by the U.K. and Australia that centers on the scraping of social media platforms for available images.
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.
Hacker "fxmsp" has been selling backdoor access to hundreds of corporate networks in 44 countries for two years, pulling in well over a million dollars from clients.
Study showed that most popular home routers contain known vulnerabilities in their firmware, with no security updates over the last 12 months for 46 out of 172 router models.
Even though CCPA enforcement has come into effect and could apply to violations dated back to beginning of the year, study shows that more than half of organizations are still not prepared for it.
Stolen passwords from over 100,000 data breaches circulating on the dark web has reached 15 billion, a number that has risen by 300% within the last two years.
Google threatened to cut a consortium of European media companies off from its network of personalized ads if they followed through their plans to use new TCF data privacy measures to prevent data collection.
Four Canadian privacy agencies are launching an investigation to determine if donut giant Tim Hortons has obtained meaningful user consent for the data collection of personal information on their app.
Europe’s highest court will soon deliver a judgement on the 'Schrems II' case that could see the controversial Privacy Shield accord between the EU and the U.S. struck down.
