Category: Privacy protection

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 […]

February 11, 2022

Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico sent a letter to top intelligence officials calling for more details about the program to be declassified. Large parts of the letter, which was sent in April 2021 and […]

January 31, 2022

A regional court in the German city of Munich has ordered a website operator to pay €100 in damages for transferring a user’s personal data — i.e., IP address — to Google via the search giant’s Fonts library without the […]

January 31, 2022

Privacy and security, while often viewed through separate management lenses, go hand-in-hand. And privacy is increasingly becoming a key element of many security strategies. According to a recent survey from Cisco, some 90% of security pros now consider privacy a […]

January 28, 2022

Jan. 28 marks Data Privacy Day each year. Individuals are increasingly aware of the importance of data privacy, and governments continue to implement and tighten associated regulations. How successfully are organizations dealing with data privacy? It varies wildly; there are […]

January 10, 2022

DeleteMe releases its privacy predictions for 2022, based on developments seen in 2020/2021 as well as original research conducted for its 2021 PII Marketplace Report. “A lot of things related to online privacy have changed in the last 2 years, […]

January 6, 2022

The 150-million-euro fine imposed on Google was a record by France’s National Commission for Information Technology and Freedom (CNIL), beating a previous cookie-related fine of 100 million euros against the company in December 2020. Facebook was handed a 60-million-euro fine. […]

December 10, 2021

Russia has stepped up its censorship efforts in the country by fully banning access to the Tor web anonymity service, coinciding with the ban of six virtual private network (VPN) operators, as the government continues to control the internet and […]

December 2, 2021

The manner in which companies do business in China saw a monumental change take effect on November 1 when China’s new Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) took effect. First announced in August 2021, it was clear entities with a China […]

November 23, 2021

We no longer rely on the Internet just for entertainment or chatting with friends. Global connectivity underpins the most basic functions of our society, such as logistics, government services and banking. Consumers connect to businesses via instant messengers and order […]

November 15, 2021

Protecting consumers and their data while providing a good shopping experience has always been a challenge for retailers. Security measures such as multifactor authentication or challenge questions create friction in the buying process, but a breach that results in the […]

November 11, 2021

The Supreme Court has blocked a £3bn lawsuit against Google claiming damages on behalf of iPhone users who were allegedly unlawfully tracked by the search company. A judge ruled yesterday that a proposed class action brought on behalf of 5.4 […]

November 8, 2021

CLEAR announced its collaboration with Microsoft for the rollout of Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (AD) verifiable credentials – a digital identity solution that enables users to confirm information about themselves with organizations while limiting what is shared. As CLEAR continues […]

November 2, 2021

What browser do you use? There’s a good chance—roughly one in seven—that it’s Google Chrome. And even if you prefer a different browser, there’s a good chance that you’re using something that’s based on Google Chrome, such as Edge, Vivaldi, […]

November 1, 2021

The protocol helps clients check whether a specific identifier is present in a list held by a server, in a privacy-preserving manner: the client identifier is transmitted encrypted, the server doesn’t learn the result of the query, and the client […]

October 19, 2021

This is achieved by simply adding data processing specifications into its general terms and conditions and effectively changing acceptance into a contract. The argument is that since there is now a contract between Facebook and the user, the usual understanding […]

October 15, 2021

Apple’s proposal to compel iPhone users to accept updates that would automatically and covertly search shared images for possible abuse material and send reports to Apple or law enforcement agencies are today condemned as unworkable, vulnerable to abuse, and a […]

October 6, 2021

Starting with Firefox 93, the browser blocks insecure HTTP downloads on encrypted (HTTPS) pages, to keep users safe from potentially unwanted or even malicious downloads. Given that data transmitted over HTTP isn’t protected, attackers able to intercept that data could […]

September 15, 2021

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 Wednesday that a decade-old rule on health data breaches applies to apps that handle sensitive health information, warning these companies to comply. The new policy statement agreed to by the FTC was intended […]