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Big Data in Politics and The Biggest Business of All

May 25, 2017

Big data in politics has become big news in the United Kingdom as the Guardian newspaper reports that the vote for the UK to leave the European Union saw two international companies manipulating public opinion through the use of big data mining techniques.

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Telco Gives Consumer Privacy Control Over Data

May 11, 2017

Telefónica in Germany has announced a partnership with U.K. firm People.io to power an app through which the telco giant's customers can control some of their data.

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Is Facebook’s Sentiment Analysis Targeting Vulnerable Teens?

May 5, 2017

Facebook's sentiment analysis understands the emotions of vulnerable teens and and is giving that data to advertisers to help understand market segments.

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Bugs and Bombs – Why White Hats Want to ‘Hack the Air Force’

May 1, 2017

So how does the United States Air Force with over 5,000 aircraft in its inventory make sure that it’s online security is top notch? It’s simple – it invites people to hack its systems.

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Bose Hit with Privacy Infringement Claim

April 25, 2017

A customer filed a privacy infringement claim on Bose, claiming that the Bose Connect app is quietly gathering data on his listening habits and onselling that information a data mining company.

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FCC Privacy Rules Gets a Makeover in the U.S. – And It’s Not Pretty

April 20, 2017

The rolling back of the broadband privacy rules set in place by the Obama administration only a short time ago should concern everyone with a stake in privacy. The Trump government has bowed to pressure from ISPs to allow them to in effect gather browsing data from customers – and then monetise that data through on selling it to marketing and advertising companies. In this article, we examine just how we have arrived at this point.

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‘Comeleak’ Allows Philippine National Privacy Commission to Show Teeth

January 25, 2017

Privacy issues in the Philippines have become headline news as 2017 gets underway. In January, the National Privacy Commission (NPC) in that country issued a statement placing the blame for a data breach that put the personal information of millions of voters at risk squarely at the feet of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and its Chairman Andres Bautista.

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Safe Harbor is Dead! Meet the New Privacy Shield!

February 10, 2016

On Feb. 2, 2016, representatives of the European Commission and the United States agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flow: the EU-US Privacy Shield, a new framework intended to replace the EU-US Safe Harbor that was invalidated as a result of a decision of the EU Court of Justice.

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Is Facebook’s Sentiment Analysis Targeting Vulnerable Teens?

Bugs and Bombs – Why White Hats Want to ‘Hack the Air Force’

Bose Hit with Privacy Infringement Claim

FCC Privacy Rules Gets a Makeover in the U.S. – And It’s Not Pretty

‘Comeleak’ Allows Philippine National Privacy Commission to Show Teeth

Safe Harbor is Dead! Meet the New Privacy Shield!

Leak of Microsoft Meeting Documents Indicates Company Is Struggling to Keep Up With Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered by Mythos

Cyber Attack by Suspected Iranian Hackers Hits 36 Minnesota Water Utilities, Causing Outages

Feds Warn About Iranian Hackers Expanding the List of Targeted PLCs to Compromise Critical Infrastructure

Out-of-Control AI Agent Strikes Again, Hacks Accounts at Four Additional Services