All Privacy & Technology articles – Page 3
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News
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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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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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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Anjuna: Protect Your Data Even If You Are Breached
Anjuna confidential computing software enables secure enclaves to secure data hardware-level encryption for end-to-end data protection.
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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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Webinar
The Human Element: Reducing Email Data Breaches By Combatting Human-Activated Risk
Did you know that 91% of cyberattacks are distributed by email and 82% of data breaches involve a human element?
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Best Practices for Detecting, Preventing and Recovering From Ransomware
Ransomware continues to cause huge losses and harms across the globe. But taking a proactive approach to security and business continuity can reduce the likelihood of falling victim to an attack—and reduce the damage that occurs if you are targeted.
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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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Video
The Future of ERM: Technologies and Frameworks
From the artificial inteliigence models used to predict and detect risk to the ever-changing regulatory landscape, our last panel of the day will consider what the future holds for ERM.
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Creating a Robust Data Breach Management Policy
This session will consider the key elements of a data breach management policy, from detection and notification to mitigation and review stages.
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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.