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DOJ Lawsuit Targets Apple's Privacy 'Shield' in Antitrust Fight

SecureWorld News

It also accuses Apple of sharing user data for advertising purposes, making Google the default Safari browser search engine despite privacy concerns, and restricting user privacy controls over digital wallets, location services, and other sensitive data troves.

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Governor Newsom Vetoes California's Landmark AI Regulation Bill

SecureWorld News

The crux of Newsom's justification for his veto is that the AI bill was focused on size of the AI system, and not on the potential risk of its use," said Myriah Jaworski , Member, Data Privacy & Cybersecurity, at Clark Hill Law. Another protects actors against their likenesses being replicated by AI without their consent.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

Making matters worse, the cameras employ facial recognition technology, which leads to questions as to whether an attacker could actually identify individuals caught on camera and then pursue them as targets for social engineering schemes or something even more nefarious. When surveillance leads to spying. What did Verkada do wrong?

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Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

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Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up?

Security Boulevard

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

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2025 Cybersecurity Predictions: Not Getting Easier; But There is Hope

SecureWorld News

Other buzz words and topics that are top of mind: Quantum computing; NIST standards; a patchwork of data privacy legislation and standards with hope for more consistency; foreign adversaries ramp up their efforts and the U.S. Criminals should be on high alert.they don't have all the advantages. Growing patchwork of U.S.

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Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

Jane Frankland

These groups are also shifting toward more human-centric exploits , like social engineering and insider assistance. The future of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), proposed as a federal framework to unify data privacy standards, is now uncertain. While federal advances may slow, state-level momentum continues.