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

SecureWorld News

Department of Justice has leveled a major antitrust case against Apple, accusing the iPhone maker of wielding consumer privacy and security as an "elastic shield" to justify anticompetitive business practices. Consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies violate the antitrust laws," said U.S.

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Three takeaways from three years of GDPR

SC Magazine

Today’s columnist, Chad Gross of A-LIGN, reflects on the progess the industy has made with data privacy since GDPR went into effect three years ago. One week ago we celebrated the third anniversary of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect. And, what laws protect me?

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Explained: Privacy washing

Malwarebytes

Several US states are going through the process of passing new comprehensive consumer privacy laws, in an attempt to give American citizens more control over their personal data. Google happily bragged about stalling the ePrivacy Regulation , which would crack down on tracking cookies.

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How Thales and Red Hat Protect Telcos from API Attacks

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Using Luna HSMs to secure 5G VNFs, protect PKI-based infrastructure, subscriber authentication, identity and privacy can also help Telcos meet industry compliance and government regulatory mandates for data privacy and consumer protection.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on the degrees of privacy tech companies assign to your digital footprints

The Last Watchdog

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. Users concerned about this tracking can disable tracking and opt-out.

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How Thales and Red Hat Protect Telcos from API Attacks

Security Boulevard

Using Luna HSMs to secure 5G VNFs, protect PKI-based infrastructure, subscriber authentication, identity and privacy can also help Telcos meet industry compliance and government regulatory mandates for data privacy and consumer protection.

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Turning Aspiration into Action to Protect Financial Institutions

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Financial institutions deal with a bevy of regulations that govern data protection and with stringent new regulations (such as the California Consumer Protection Act coming January 1), compliance is top of mind. Compliance v. In fact, almost all (93 %) of the respondents have more than 10 SaaS environments.