Category: Privacy protection

August 25, 2022

Sephora Inc., one of the world’s largest cosmetics retailers, has settled a lawsuit claiming that the company sold customer information without proper notice in violation of the California’s landmark consumer privacy law, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said Wednesday. Sephora […]

August 15, 2022

The short-video platform TikTok has come under fire in recent months. Both lawmakers and citizens in the U.S. have questioned its data collection practices and potential ties to the Chinese state. The concerns have deepened after Buzzfeed published a report […]

August 1, 2022

As of June 30, 2022, 91% of companies across all verticals, states, and business size that must comply with CCPA are still unprepared to meet CCPA requirements, according to CYTRIO. Further, 94% of companies that must comply with GDPR are […]

July 26, 2022

AU10TIX announced expanded capabilities to strengthen fraud mitigation defense through its fraud intelligence platform, INSTINCT. INSTINCT, which uses traffic-level intelligence sourced from a global consortium of neural-network partners, now can deliver protection for stopping fraud like swarm attacks, deep fakes […]

July 12, 2022

McAfee announced a multi-year partnership with Telstra to deliver comprehensive protection to safeguard the privacy and identity of consumers across activities, devices, and locations. The partnership will grant new and existing Telstra customers easy access to McAfee’s leading security solutions […]

July 12, 2022

Plugins that enhance the amount of information companies collect about the visitors to their site help fuel a business environment where every speck of customer data is collected because it could be monetized someday. However, three pharmacies in Sweden recently […]

June 27, 2022

Every now and then, a new face swap app appears that takes the internet by storm. For a couple of days, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are taken over by selfies that have been digitally altered to show us as older, […]

June 24, 2022

Multiple data privacy advocates have criticised plans in the UK to replace cookie consent pop-ups with an “opt-out model”, which they believe will do more damage than good. In an email exchange with TechRadar Pro, Jon Callas of the Electronic […]

May 25, 2022

There’s been a lot of turbulence in the data privacy regulation space in the past couple of years. Post Brexit, there was a risk for the UK to be digitally isolated from the EU. For the moment, the General Data […]

May 24, 2022

Connecticut became the fifth state to pass a consumer data privacy law with the signing of SB 6, titled “An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring.” The law, which goes into effect July 1, 2023, is similar to […]

May 23, 2022

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined facial recognition database firm Clearview AI more than £7.5 million (around $9.4 million) for breaching the UK GDPR. The ICO has also ordered Clearview to stop scraping and using the personal data […]

May 12, 2022

Google on Wednesday took to its annual developer conference to announce a host of privacy and security updates, including support for virtual credit cards on Android and Chrome. “When you use autofill to enter your payment details at checkout, virtual […]

April 29, 2022

China’s Great Firewall has created a unique version of the internet that is under constant surveillance and censorship, but a change coming to Weibo takes things to the next level. Reuters reports that Weibo will begin showing the rough locations […]

April 29, 2022

CYTRIO released findings from additional independent research it conducted during Q1 2022 on the state of companies’ readiness to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation […]

April 28, 2022

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and Twitter’s new owner, on Thursday called on adding support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to the platform’s direct messages (DM) feature. “Twitter DMs should have end to end encryption like Signal, so no […]

April 21, 2022

Web scraping—the automated extraction of data from websites—has been around for a long time. Simultaneously cursed and praised, with nobody being able to quite land the decisive blow about whether it should be allowed, one way or another. This may […]

March 25, 2022

The U.S. and the European Union (EU) have a preliminary agreement over the storing of European data on U.S. soil. It was announced by President Biden and EU President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking on Friday March 25. If successful, […]

March 23, 2022

Concerns are being raised over UK government proposals to extend emergency powers introduced during the pandemic, giving it access to patient data held by general practitioners (GPs). The government has decided to put in place a plan “omitting the expiry […]

February 22, 2022

Merkle has released a report which has historically reported on the marketing leader’s point of view, but this time turns its focus to consumers, revealing their sentiments around online privacy and data collection and exploring their attitudes about regulations and […]

February 14, 2022

The encryption management solutions market is expected to increase by $6.07 billion from 2020 to 2025, and the market’s growth momentum will accelerate at a CAGR of almost 17%, according to Technavio. Encryption management solutions vendor insights The encryption management […]