The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To provide even further insight into the data safety and privacy practices of app developers, researchers at Incogni conducted a study of the top 500 paid and top 500 free Google Play Store apps. percent) of the apps share user data with third parties. Greediest data harvesters. They share a lot of data.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

News of data breaches, data vulnerabilities and compromised private information is released almost daily from businesses both small and large. Related: Europe’s GDPR ushers in new privacy era. Legislation has recently been proposed for individual states, addressing data privacy regulations head-on.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Here we’ll discuss the implications to the third-party tracking and data which has been most impacted by recent privacy regulations and protocols. First it is important to understand the different degrees of data privacy. Degrees of privacy. Check out the examples below from Forrester’s blog.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

Maryland Takes the Lead in Privacy Legislation with Comprehensive MODPA The Maryland legislature enacted two comprehensive privacy bills to limit how big tech platforms can acquire and utilize customers’ and children’s data. states in enforcing its residents’ privacy rights thus far.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. For many organizations, spending so much time collecting data is not conducive to innovation and growth. Data privacy. Another way for businesses to streamline workflows is to automate data privacy functions such as compliance.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. For many organizations, spending so much time collecting data is not conducive to innovation and growth. Data privacy. Another way for businesses to streamline workflows is to automate data privacy functions such as compliance.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 15, 2024

“New Jersey has long been a leader in data privacy,” stated Brandon Pugh, CIPP/US, CIPM, R-Street Institute Policy Director for Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats. The bill requires a controller to conduct a data protection impact assessment before processing personally identifiable information.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On May 25, 2018, Germany entered a new era of data protection. This marked a significant milestone, shaping global data privacy and setting the stage for enhanced regulations within Germany. But what does this mean for data subjects, and how can they enforce their privacy rights?

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 25, 2021

Key Takeaway #1 – Know Your Data. The New York City biometric law is part of a larger effort by New York to take a leading role in developing pro-consumer data privacy laws. The New York legislature is considering broader, statewide biometric and consumer data privacy laws. Key Takeaways. Share on Facebook.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect. In this blog, and in one by my colleague Julie Lassabliere from Safelayer Secure Communications , we explore the need for trusted device identification and data integrity in the IoT.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2018

This article was originally featured as a guest post on Venafi’s blog. The second challenge is the protection of the integrity and confidentiality of the data collected as it flows from machine to machine, including applications which execute decisions (often without human intervention) based on that data.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

It’s Data Privacy Day and when it comes down to it, most of us don’t know exactly how many organizations have our data—let alone how it’s being collected or what it is being used for. This may give them the right, or at least enough rights in their own mind, to sell your data to data brokers.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

375 the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), making California the first U.S. state to pass its own data privacy law. Last August, my colleague Ashvin Kamaraju wrote a blog shortly after this took place. For example, data collected by an entity may not be associated with an individual but could identify a household.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2023

Purpose limitation is found in many data privacy laws, frameworks, and standards, though the exact language and interpretation of the principle varies: ‍ General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) - PII must be collected for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner incompatible with those purposes.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 22, 2019

Troy Hunt made a name for himself calling attention to massive data leaks via his blog, troyhunt.com and – especially – haveibeenpwned.com , his online tool for checking to see if your credentials have been stolen. Yes, you’ve been pwned! They have.).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 17, 2024

Such breaches jeopardize privacy and expose enterprises to regulatory penalties, legal liabilities, and reputational damage. In another Imperva blog, Hacking Microsoft and Wix with Keyboard Shortcuts , researchers focused on the anchor tag and its behavior with varying target attributes and protocols.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 17, 2024

Such breaches jeopardize privacy and expose enterprises to regulatory penalties, legal liabilities, and reputational damage. In another Imperva blog, Hacking Microsoft and Wix with Keyboard Shortcuts , researchers focused on the anchor tag and its behavior with varying target attributes and protocols.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But until recently, the VR privacy threat has remained entirely theoretical. Berkeley RDI is a preeminent source of open-access metaverse privacy research. To test the true extent of data collection in VR, we designed a simple 30-person user study called MetaData. The story is not entirely pessimistic, however.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2018

You can read about California Consumer Privacy Org and the effort to put privacy on the ballot in this letter from Alastair Mactaggart , who now serves as board chair for Californians for Consumer Privacy. Malcom Chisholm’s blog post on CCPA vs. GDPR describes the differences between the two laws.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

We also took significant strides to directly educate users on security best practices for setting up their meetings, including via blogs, videos, and by hosting a weekly webinar to provide privacy and security updates to our community. Ultimately, all of these changes were just the first step for us to better serve our users.

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McAfee

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

As businesses continue to accelerate to the cloud, there’s no better time to review all aspects of cloud data collection, use, storage, transfer and processing. Promote them via the intranet, blogs and internal marketing, and redirect requests to unsupported services back to those you like.

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