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Key Cybersecurity Trends for 2025. My Predictions

Jane Frankland

States like New Jersey, Tennessee, and Minnesota are developing comprehensive data privacy laws that emphasise data transparency, risk assessments, and consumer protection. Africa : Nations are developing data protection laws, with some like Nigeria and Tanzania already implementing new regulations.

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California Privacy Agency Enforcement, CCPA Rulemaking, and CIPA Reform

SecureWorld News

This provision mirrors the Agency's prior settlement with a major auto manufacturer, wherein it emphasized that contracting out privacy rights to a third-party consent management tool, without monitoring and oversight of that tool, is not a defense to liability. Peters, Ali Bloom, and Chirag H.

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The Latest in Creepy Spyware

Schneier on Security

Where are the consumer protection agencies? Manufacturers of those systems have included cameras for possible future uses, such as hand gestures to control in-flight entertainment.". "The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs," the spokesperson said.

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New IoT Security Regulations

Schneier on Security

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. It falls upon lawmakers to create laws that protect consumers. This is the Internet of Things, and it's a security nightmare.

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Advice for manufacturers on the coming PSTI regulation

Pen Test Partners

This is a pivotal moment for manufacturers, importers, and distributors, imposing new compliance measures to safeguard against cyber threats. Implications for manufacturers and vendors This regulatory overhaul extends its reach to the core economic actors in the product lifecycle; manufacturers, importers, and distributors of smart products.

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Explained: Privacy washing

Malwarebytes

A small but telling example was a recent court case where a judge ruled that car manufacturers collecting users’ text messages and call logs did not meet the Washington Privacy Act’s (WPA) standard that a plaintiff must prove that “his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation” has been threatened.

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FTC bans SpyFone and its CEO from continuing to sell stalkerware

Malwarebytes

In that same release Wednesday, Samuel Levine, Acting Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said: “SpyFone is a brazen brand name for a surveillance business that helped stalkers steal private information.