Schneier on Security

JUNE 8, 2018

When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking place on the internet. Right now, the only way we can force these companies to take our privacy more seriously is through the market.

Data privacy 195

Data privacy Surveillance Marketing Internet 195

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 3, 2021

As per the report on CNN, this public surveillance program will be carried out by Department of Homeland Security and will be done by collaborating with private companies, mainly those belonging to technology sector. Both the stories were later proved to be true, making Snowden and Assange take asylum in Russia till 2019.

Data privacy 102

Data privacy Government Surveillance Hacking 102

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 4, 2019

On May 25, the European Union celebrated the first anniversary of the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , the most important change in data privacy regulations in the last decade, designed to restructure the way in which personal data is handled across every sector (public or private) and every industry.

Data privacy 102

Data privacy Artificial Intelligence Data breaches Technology 102

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In a recent blog, privacy company Proton explained how Google is spending millions lobbying and actively fighting against privacy laws that would protect you from online surveillance. This is done under the guise that Google wants regulators to let companies decide themselves what’s good for you and for society.

Identity Theft 137

Identity Theft Consumer Protection Surveillance Data privacy 137

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Harvard business professor Dr. Shoshana Zuboff lays out how and why control of online privacy has become a linchpin to the current state of wealth distribution in her 2019 New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power.

Data privacy 196

Data privacy Manufacturing Education Technology 196

CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2021

News is out that the data will be shared with a notorious US Software firm named Palantir, whose core business is to supply information to companies that are into the business of big data and offering surveillance tech to firms associated with Military, law enforcement, and border forces. .

Big data 94

Big data Surveillance Healthcare Software 94

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In one case, ExtraHop tracked a made-in-China surveillance cam sending UDP traffic logs , every 30 minutes, to a known malicious IP address with ties to China. In another case, a device management tool was deployed in a hospital and used the WiFi network to insure data privacy, as it provisioned connected devices.

Cyber Attacks 133

Cyber Attacks Cloud Migration Digital transformation Surveillance 133