The increase in cyber threats is forcing general counsels to grow into a strategic leadership role in terms of management of data risks, per the General Counsel Report 2021.
Critical infrastructure companies may soon be subject to tighter cyber incident reporting requirements, as new cybersecurity legislation has passed the Senate and will now go before the House.
Privacy concerns may be getting lost in the stampede to find a 'better Twitter,' as researchers warn that Meta's new app collects much more sensitive personal information than comparable platforms.
Privacy researchers recently discovered FBI and ICE using facial recognition technology to scan against DMV databases in order to locate criminals and undocumented immigrants.
Google's new Cybersecurity Action Team warned that cybercriminals compromised unsecured or misconfigured Google Cloud instances to perform cryptocurrency mining.
A ransomware attack on a third-party service provider has impacted numerous Swiss government departments, potentially leaking sensitive personally identifiable information.
Citing a potential violation of the GDPR, privacy activist Max Schrems and his digital rights nonprofit organization noyb have filed GDPR complaints against eight major streaming companies, including YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, Apple and Amazon.
Brazil's Health Ministry is looking at extended downtime for the system that processes Covid-19 vaccination data as it attempts to recover from two ransomware attacks that came just four days apart.
Nissan Oceania is notifying approximately 100,000 individuals in Australia and New Zealand that the December 2023 data breach by the Akira ransomware gang leaked their personal information.
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.
