All Privacy & Technology articles – Page 8
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EU member states agree negotiating stance for ePrivacy regulation
European Union member states have agreed a joint position on the proposed ePrivacy regulation, allowing the EU President to open talks with parliament about the final text.
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EU antitrust chief warns Apple must apply iOS 14 privacy policy to its own apps
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager warns Apple that its own apps must abide by its new privacy update amid accusations of anti-competitiveness from Facebook.
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Thousands of Australians remain unaware cyber attack affected them
Service NSW has been unable to contact between 20% and 30% of the 104,000 people whose data was compromised in a breach last March, a Parliamentary inquiry was told.
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Clearview AI’s anti-crime facial recognition technology broke Canadian privacy law, probe finds
Clearview AI’s scraping of billions of images of people from the internet was mass surveillance and a clear violation of Canadians’ privacy rights, a investigation by four of the country’s privacy commissioners has concluded.
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One Year on from the Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Just one year after news broke of the shocking relationship between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, the scandal has lost none of its relevance in terms of how organisations worldwide handle data on consumers and employees.
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Norway’s DPA proposes €9.65m fine for Grindr dating app
Norway’s data protection authority has notified gay dating app Grindr that it intends to impose a financial penalty of NOK100 M ($11.7m, €9.65m) on the company for breaching consent requirements under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
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ICO resumes real-time bidding and adtech probe
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has restarted its investigation into real-time bidding (RTB) and the adtech industry, paused last May so the authority could prioritise activities related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Webinar
Can AI solve the Schrems II puzzle?
What are your options for cross border data-sharing for 2021? Alexandra Ebert, Chief Trust Officer of MOSTLY AI, a synthetic data solution startup, offers a way out of the dilemma with privacy-compliant, accurate synthetic data.
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Health insurer fined $5.1m for data breach affecting 9m-plus people
Excellus Health Plan of New York state is to pay $5.1m (€4.2m) to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the US and implement a corrective action plan following a data breach.
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ICO adds two projects to Sandbox service in bid to bolster children’s online privacy
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has added two projects to its Sandbox service with the aim of improving children’s online privacy.
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Fertility app Flo settles misuse of health data case with FTC
Period and fertility-tracking app developer Flo Health has reached an agreement with the United States’ Federal Trade Commission over allegations the company shared users’ health information with outside data analytics providers despite promising it would be kept private
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App developer settles facial recognition deception case with FTC
Everalbum has reached an agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) following allegations it deceived consumers about the use of facial recognition technology by its Ever cloud photo storage app and retention of photos and videos of users who had deactivated their accounts.
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Google seeks to dampen Fitbit privacy concerns
Tech giant Google has sought to allay privacy fears now it has completed the acquisition of health and fitness smartwatch maker Fitbit.
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WhatsApp delays privacy policy changes following Facebook data-sharing concern
WhatsApp has announced a three-month delay to changes to its privacy policy following concerns over mandatory data-sharing with parent company Facebook.
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UK competition watchdog opens probe into Google privacy changes
Google’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’ plan to remove third party cookies from its Chrome browser is being probed by a regulator in the United Kingdom over concerns it would be anti-competitive.
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Report
The data protection and privacy trends to watch out for in 2021
PrivSec Report looks forward to the new year and what it could mean for the privacy and data protection worlds.
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Video
Practical Steps for Successfully Managing Unstructured Data
Are we experiencing a data explosion or data implosion? With data growth not slowing down any time soon, one thing is clear: traditional approaches to managing information aren’t working (just look at the frequency of major data breaches splashed across the front page of the news.)
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World Trends - Trust in Technology
In this session, Phillipa Leighton Jones, Editor at Large, The Trust at The Wall Street Journal | Barron’s Group will interview Rudra Mitra, Vice President Product, Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance at Microsoft.
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David Rowan on Biology is the new in software and what this means for data privacy
David Rowan was Editor-in-chief of the UK edition of WIRED magazine from launch in 2009 to February 2017 and is the. author of ‘Non-Bullshit Innovation’,
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Technological Development and the Impact on Children’s Data Privacy
The education sector faces some unique challenges involved in protecting data, with a large proportion of underaged ‘clients’ and new delivery mechanisms created from scratch in response to the coronavirus pandemic.