Latest Privacy and Technology Breaches and Vulnerabilities – Page 2
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PICCASO Privacy Awards Europe Shortlist for 2023 Revealed
The PICCASO Privacy Awards Europe is delighted to announce its cohort of shortlisted individuals, teams, initiatives, and organisations for 2023.
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Facebook hit with €1.2bn penalty for failing to protect user data
Meta, the owner of Facebook, has received a €1.2bn (£1bn) from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for failing to protect user data when it gets transferred from Europe to the US.
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Q&A
Meet PICCASO Privacy Awards Winner, Rodica Cararus
The PICCASO Privacy Awards is delighted to name data protection paralegal, Rodica Cararus as the winner of the Rising Star Award 2022.
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Social media user data available for as little as $6 on Dark Web
A recent study has uncovered a thriving market for hacked social media and entertainment service accounts on the Dark Web, with accounts available for purchase to users for as little as $6USD each.
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Misuse of children’s data lands TikTok with £12.7m fine
TikTok, the Chinese-owned social media platform, has been fined £12.7m by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for breaching data protection law and failing to protect the privacy of children.
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Survey lists US identity theft hotspots
Rhode Island has been identified as the worst state in the U.S. for identity theft, according to a recent study.
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Fault in ChatGPT prompts AI privacy concerns
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is once more at the forefront of the data protection conversation following a significant error that occurred on the platform, reports reveal.
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PICCASO Privacy Awards Europe are open for entries!
As technology continues to evolve, it has become increasingly important to recognise individuals and organisations that prioritise privacy and data protection. That’s why we are excited to announce that the PICCASO Privacy Awards Europe are officially open for entries!
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PICCASO Awards: Quotes From the Winners
The PICCASO Privacy Awards celebrated the people and organisations making a significant contribution to privacy and data protection on December 8th, 2022.
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Privacy leaders recognised as the inaugural PICCASO Privacy Awards shortlist is revealed
The PICCASO Privacy Awards is delighted to reveal the inaugural cohort of shortlisted individuals, teams, initiatives, and businesses for the 2022 Awards, comprising 110 finalists across 15 categories.
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Sponsored
Exterro – Managing a Privacy Program Across Multiple Jurisdictions
Data privacy regulations and practices serve a critical purpose in today’s tech-centric, digitally focused and hyperconnected world.
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Exterro – Data Minimisation: A Key Element of Risk-Reduction
The over retention of data is a major data privacy risk that needs to be addressed.
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Exterro – Data Discovery: Revealing Data Skeletons in Your Closet
The principles of data minimisation and storage limitation aren’t just legal requirements. They’re crucial means of preventing data breaches and GDPR violations.
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Feature
Phishing, Third-Party Risk and the Signal and Twilio Attack
Communications provider Twilio suffered a phishing attack on 4 August. On Monday, 11 days later, messaging app Signal disclosed that some of its users have been impacted by the attack.
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Google’s £35m Australian Fine: Consumer Law Steps In Where Privacy Law Would Fail
Australia’s privacy regime is weak compared to most other major economies. Yet on Friday, an Australian court ordered Google to pay AUD 60 million (£35 million) in fines for its “deceptive” data collection practices.
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‘Indiscriminate Scanning’: EU Authorities Criticise Child Abuse Detection Proposals
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have published an opinion about proposed child safety measures that they claim could lead to “indiscriminate scanning of the content of virtually all types of electronic communications of all users”.
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Key Tactics for Effective Cybersecurity
As the pandemic pushed millions of workers home, corporations rushed to build infrastructure to support their new remote workforce.
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Can European Regulators Stop Clearview AI?
The US-based facial recognition company Clearview AI once told investors that “almost everyone in the world” could soon be identifiable via its biometric database. The company’s methods have been declared illegal in multiple jurisdictions—most recently in the UK. But do European regulators actually have any power to stop Clearview AI?
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Article
The Splintering of Global Data Flows: Is the ‘Risk-Based Approach’ Dead?
To combat foreign government surveillance, European data protection regulators are taking an increasingly hardline stance on GDPR enforcement that could drastically change the internet. Some argue that a more pragmatic, “risk-based approach” could help avoid severe disruption. But a recent decision against Google suggests those people are losing the debate.
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Meet the expert: Scott Warren among speakers at PrivSec Focus: Enterprise Risk
We are delighted to announce that cybersecurity and data privacy leader, Scott Warren will be lending his expertise to the discussion at PrivSec Focus: Enterprise Risk.