Popular mini-game module found in over 100 Android apps, pitched to developers as a legitimate marketing SDK meant to improve user engagement and attention, has been found to have spyware capability hidden in it.
People of an entire country were put at risk with Ecuador data breach of 20 million user information. The breach has accelerated a data privacy law that has been under consideration for months.
UK CMA Plans to Investigate Google Chrome’s “Privacy Sandbox” for Potential Anticompetitive Behavior
The "Privacy Sandbox" initiative proposed by Google could bring major changes to the online advertising industry, disabling third-party cookies entirely in the Chrome browser. Could this be considered anticompetitive?
Recent creative crypto scams illustrate some specific things that investors need to be prepared for. A scam involving Squid Game demonstrates how FOMO can catch investors, and a Google Ads scheme used phishing techniques to steal wallets.
Privacy advocate groups allege that UK Test and Trace rushed the process and did not conduct the necessary data protection impact assessment that the GDPR requires for collection of personal data on this sort of scale.
New UN report warns that digital welfare technologies used by many governments could be used to “surveil, target, harass and punish” the poor and vulnerable instead.
A massive supply chain attack on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry has infected over 400 packages with over 2...
An ongoing Texas investigation is specifically examining whether driver data collected by modern smart vehicles is being misused under the terms of a variety of state laws. The investigation is also looking at potential violations of federal law in the area of consumer privacy.
Healthcare provider Kaiser Permanente has disclosed a data breach stemming from online tracking that inadvertently shared with third-party advertisers how users interacted with and navigated through the website and mobile applications, and search terms used in the health encyclopedia patient information.
The European Commission is investigating a data breach that compromised the infrastructure used to manage mobile devices, which leaked the staff members’ personal information.
