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Serious Privacy Podcast – RegTech: Using the Power of Technology for Good (with Shub Nandi)

TrustArc

Technology brings new demands for compliance, especially given the amount of personal data collected through various means and how it is both used and combined. However, technology can also be used to assist compliance professionals by providing the necessary information quickly.

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Emerging security challenges for Europe’s emerging technologies

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With many of these transformations, it is not just the premise of keeping up that drives the huge levels of investment we see organisations making – but also the promise of what’s possible, if the right technologies and approaches can be harnessed to disrupt or differentiate in the face of fierce competition. Containers.

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On Surveillance in the Workplace

Schneier on Security

Gamification and algorithmic management of work activities through continuous data collection. In a blog post about this report, Cory Doctorow mentioned "the adoption curve for oppressive technology, which goes, 'refugee, immigrant, prisoner, mental patient, children, welfare recipient, blue collar worker, white collar worker.'"

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OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

Schneier on Security

Simon Willison nails it in a tweet: “OpenAI are training on every piece of data they see, even when they say they aren’t” is the new “Facebook are showing you ads based on overhearing everything you say through your phone’s microphone.” His point is that these companies have lost our trust: Trust is really important.

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114 Million US Citizens and Companies Found Unprotected Online

Adam Levin

Hackenproof, the Estonian cybersecurity company that found the data trove online, announced their discovery on their blog. The data was found on Shodan , an IoT-centric search engine that allows users to look up and access “power plants, Smart TVs, [and] refrigerators.” 32 million SkyBrasil customers. 1133 NFL players.

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GUEST ESSAY: How ‘DPIAs” — data privacy impact assessments — can lead SMBs to compliance

The Last Watchdog

It’s often difficult for small businesses to invest significantly in data privacy compliance or security measures because they don’t have large budgets. In fact, many SMBs have to choose between investing in new technology and making payroll.

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SHARED INTEL: VCs pumped $21.8 billion into cybersecurity in 2021 — why there’s more to come

The Last Watchdog

Many of the startups attempting to tackle this vexing problem are offering the promise of data science and machine learning to automate the process of managing identities, although none of them even have the data collected to prove the accuracy and robustness of their proposed solutions.