TrustArc

JUNE 7, 2023

The post Policy Briefing: UX Dark Patterns in Consent and Data Collection appeared first on TrustArc Privacy Blog. Regulators are cracking down on companies that manipulate and deceive users with UX dark patterns online.

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Data collection 59

Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Former children’s commissioner of England Anne Longfield is suing TikTok on behalf of millions of children in the UK over data collection that Longfield maintains is without sufficient warning and transparency. The post TikTok Sued Over Data Collection of Minors | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 6, 2023

The data was used to better target advertising in the App Store. These actions are against Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act (DPA), the French law aligned with […]. in France for Data Collecting Issues appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The post Apple Fined $8.0M

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 8, 2020

Governments and organizations are unleashing new technologies to fight the spread of the coronavirus, adding to privacy and data collection concerns.

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Data collection Government Technology 155

Security Boulevard

JUNE 19, 2023

The post Debunking the Misconception That CRQ Requires a Lot of Data Collection appeared first on Security Boulevard. Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience.

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Data collection Cyber Risk Risk 57

Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Red Box provides the open architecture for data capture. Uniphore then feeds that data into U-Capture, its conversational AI automation tool.

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Data collection Architecture Artificial Intelligence Big data 179

The Hacker News

JANUARY 8, 2022

Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Friday announced the launch of a centralized Privacy Center that aims to "educate people" about its approach with regards to how it collects and processes personal information across its family of social media apps.

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TrustArc

JUNE 7, 2023

The post Policy Briefing: UX Dark Patterns in Consent and Data Collection appeared first on TrustArc Privacy Blog. Regulators are cracking down on companies that manipulate and deceive users with UX dark patterns online.

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Data collection 52

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Lu Zhou, Chengyongxiao Wei, Tong Zhu, Guoxing Chen, Xiaokuan Zhang, Suguo Du, Hui Cao, Haojin Zhu Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – POLICYCOMP: Counterpart Comparison of Privacy Policies Uncovers Overbroad Personal Data Collection Practices appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Data collection Education Information Security 51

Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

users for illegal data collection. The Chinese firm was accused to have failed to get the users’ consent to collect data in compliance with the Illinois biometric privacy law. The post ByteDance agreed to pay $92M in US privacy Settlement for TikTok data collection appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Data collection Hacking Information Security Malware 111

Dark Reading

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Norway wants to permanently ban the owner of Facebook and Instagram from collecting sensitive user data across Europe, saying its current policies violate GDPR rules.

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Data collection 105

Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has sued Google for allegedly collecting and using biometric data belonging to millions of Texans without proper consent. [.].

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Data collection 105

Dark Reading

JUNE 7, 2023

The FTC has demanded additional data privacy protections for kids using Xbox gaming systems, extending COPPA protections.

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Data collection Data privacy 92

Security Boulevard

MARCH 12, 2021

OSINT data collection automation ensures that teams are gathering the most relevant data as quickly and efficiently as possible, while keeping investigations – and investigators – secure. The post OSINT Data Collection: You Still Need Humans, but Automation is Well Worth the Investment appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Data collection 70

Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

The Incognito splash page will explicitly state that Google collects data from third-party websites “regardless of which browsing or browser mode you use,” and stipulate that “third-party sites and apps that integrate our services may still share information with Google,” among other changes.

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Data collection 246

Digital Shadows

MARCH 31, 2022

In 2020, there was an estimated 59 trillion gigabytes of data in the world. The post The Power of Data Analysis in Threat Intelligence – Part 1: Data Collection and Data Mining first appeared on Digital Shadows. Most of which was created in.

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Data collection 67

Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that Google was fined $60 million for misleading Australian Android users regarding the collection and use of their location data for almost two years, between January 2017 and December 2018. [.].

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Data collection 96

Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

Many security experts are warning of the risks of using the popular app, threat actors could be potentially interested in data collected by FaceApp. The post Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Data collection Wireless Advertising Risk 93

Threatpost

OCTOBER 23, 2019

With DoubleClick, Analytics and AdWords under its belt, Google continues dominating when it comes to global data collection for advertising, a new report found.

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Data collection Advertising 41

Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

User endpoints generate NVM data with rich and granular device context – such as IP addresses, host and user names, machine types and models, which operating systems and versions are running, the processes that launched network connectivity, MAC addresses, hash information, and more – that is all collected and stored in the Data Store.

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Data collection Firewall VPN Threat Detection 86

Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

User endpoints generate NVM data with rich and granular device context – such as IP addresses, host and user names, machine types and models, which operating systems and versions are running, the processes that launched network connectivity, MAC addresses, hash information, and more – that is all collected and stored in the Data Store.

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Data collection Firewall VPN Threat Detection 82

Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 21, 2022

France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Clearview AI with €20 million for illegal collection and processing of biometric data belonging to French citizens. [.].

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Data collection 79

The Hacker News

APRIL 24, 2024

A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments.

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Data collection Malware 109

Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This is not about mass surveillance of mail , this is about sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves : To track down an alleged mail thief, a US postal inspector used license plate reader technology, GPS data collected by a rental car company, and, most damning of all, hid a camera inside one of the (..)

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Surveillance Data collection Technology 229

Dark Reading

OCTOBER 2, 2020

An IT lawyer digs into the implications of collecting biometric data, why it can't be anonymized, and what nations are doing about it.

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Data collection 96

Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Italy's competition authority (Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) has announced a fine of 10 million Euros ($11.3 million) against Google and Apple. [.].

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Data collection Technology 77

We Live Security

MARCH 19, 2024

Given the unhealthy data-collection habits of some mHealth apps, you’re well advised to tread carefully when choosing with whom you share some of your most sensitive data

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Data collection Mobile 119

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes: User phone numbers. Diagnostic data collected from app logs. Under the new terms, Facebook reserves the right to share collected data with its family of companies. Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books. Profile names.

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Data collection Accountability 317

Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Microsoft has been granted more time to change how Windows 10 collects data about users in order to comply with the French data protection act.

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Data collection 155

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Data collection and use policies need to be reexamined because of AI. The FTC is trying to address the issue. The post TEGWAR, AI and the FTC – Gov’t Agency Warns of Deceptive AI Contract Language appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Data collection Data privacy Risk Government 67

Adam Levin

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to the Motherboard article, “multiple Avast users… were not aware Avast sold browsing data, raising questions about how informed that consent is.”. The primary method of Avast’s data collection was initially via web browser plugins distributed through subsidiaries such as AVG.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 18, 2024

The post Online Businesses Often Steal And Exploit Customer Data Collected During Cancelled Transactions appeared first on Joseph Steinberg: CyberSecurity Expert Witness, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor.

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Data collection Retail Scams Artificial Intelligence 228

Threatpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How features such as infotainment and driver-assist can give others a leg up on car owners.

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Data collection Hacking Engineering 103

Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 4, 2023

Meta has violated GDPR with illegal personal data collection practices for targeted ads. Learn about this latest violation and Meta's rocky GDPR history. The post Meta violates GDPR with non-compliant targeted ad practices, earns over $400 million in fines appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Data collection Big data VPN 160

Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 17, 2021

People surveyed by KPMG reported feeling increasingly uneasy about the data collection practices of corporations.

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Data privacy Data collection 211

Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Bush in the wake of the September 11 attacks, but had been phased out by the NSA between 2018 and 2019 after disuse and technical issues had rendered the data collected unusable. . “[T]he

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Surveillance Data collection Government Cybersecurity 260

Dark Reading

APRIL 8, 2019

A new inquiry aims to determine whether contracts between Microsoft and EU organizations violate GDPR.

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