SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2024

California is notoriously on the forefront of implementing expansive cyber privacy regulations and, in turn, prosecution through litigation and other legal avenues to enforce those policies. So, let's take a look at some recent California opinions on matters involving charges of various data privacy violations.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

What To Know About Privacy Data. The internet makes our lives more convenient but also brings about new threats that we need to be on the lookout for. Every year, up to 10% of Americans fall for a scam, which often leads to the exposure of their personal data, according to Legaljobs. Why Is Data Privacy Important?

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

“The second reason for this healthy public debate is that thought leaders in technology are in the best position to implement tools for respecting consumer privacy, such as providing full disclosure about data collection and requiring consent for collection of sensitive personal data.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

None of the customer data was sold and Alibaba’s users didn’t incur financial losses from the episode, the company said in a statement. Taobao devotes substantial resources to combat unauthorized scraping on our platform, as data privacy and security is of utmost importance.

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IT Security Guru

MAY 7, 2024

Data brokers are businesses or individuals who collect and sell people’s personal information, including phone details and browsing behavior. In this post, we will look at how data brokers operate and some critical steps we can take to protect our personal information better. The Internet is also a rich source of information.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A VPN service might tell you that online privacy means obscuring your IP address and hiding your Internet activity from your Internet Service Provider. A privacy-forward web browser, like Mozilla, or Brave, might tell you that online privacy means being protected from third-party tracking and surreptitious data collection.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

“A near-future event could cause a massive depopulation of internet-connected devices. Along with China’s new data privacy law , companies can expect scrutiny of data uses and protection to continue to grow. Or even worse, widespread corruption of medical devices.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Privacy-oriented browsers also limit data collection and "phoning home" and telemetry activity on their backend (in this specific case, I am using "backend" to refer to the side where users don't necessarily directly interact with the browser), preserving your privacy as a user.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

The Internet of Things (IoT) is very crowded. billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020 2. Protecting the integrity and confidentiality of data collected by all connected devices. If one cannot trust the integrity of this data, it is pointless to make decisions based on it.

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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. For example, data collected by an entity may not be associated with an individual but could identify a household. The CCPA, which will come into effect on Jan. Looking into to the future.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Ron DeSantis aimed to pass several “priority legislations” set to increase Florida data privacy laws and safeguard consumers against censorship and tracking. This year’s version weaves together some strings of other data privacy laws in the US. Republican Gov.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2018

Protecting the identities of applications is one of three major challenges that must be addressed to ensure trust and facilitate the adoption of transformational technologies employing the use of connected devices (machines) in the rapidly growing Internet of Things (IoT) and DevOps environments.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., For starters, the hackers gained access to such a vast number Verkada cameras networks through a compromised “Super Admin” account, whose credentials Kottmann says were found publicly exposed on the internet.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are many ways that data collection, and data availability, make less sense as the years pass by. There’s even mention of recovering data from phones which had connected to a car without the phone itself being present. Data availability playing catch up with data privacy.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And, as my guest will say later in this podcast, these virtual SOCs are like pen testing the internet. We can't just, you know, bust things up into small parts and say this is my world because again, internet is a pen test and we're all in this together. VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Role of Encryption and Key Management In this complex and ever-evolving world of data protection, encryption plays a multifaceted role in ensuring data sovereignty. Agnieszka Bruyere raises similar concerns about GenAI asking, “Who is responsible for ensuring the data is used ethically and legally?”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): SIEM consolidates log data collecting, processing, and reporting from both cloud and on-premises systems, assisting in the detection and response to security events. Data synchronization is critical in hybrid cloud architectures to provide consistency across infrastructures.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2023

The leaking/capture of metadata is just as privacy invasive as directly reading message contents in many cases, despite the downplaying by the entities who rely on data collection via metadata. People break up over metadata, are arrested over metadata, and killed over metadata. TABLE OF CONTENTS What is metadata?

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 22, 2019

In our second segment this week: we’re used to hearing stories about connected device makers getting caught out with shoddy device security, insecure applications, dodgy data collection practices – or all three.

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Threatpost

MARCH 27, 2019

The FTC is ordering seven companies - including AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast and more - to outline what data they collect, what they use the data for, and how transparent they're being with consumers.

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Spinone

JULY 3, 2020

GDPR Overview and Definition GDPR is the law created to give people more control over the personal data they share on the internet. Before the GDPR was created, there had been multiple cases of personal data violations and misusages, like selling contacts to third parties without users knowing about that.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2025

A robust 75% said they opt out of data collection, as possible, and 23% have gone a step further, using a data removal service to help clean up any personal information that is easily found online. Individual action The dire privacy concerns shared by many respondents have, for the most part, not resulted in privacy nihilism.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A digital twin is a virtual duplicate of a physical entity or a process — created by extrapolating data collected from live settings. As data collection and computer modeling have advanced apace, so have the use-cases for digital twin technology. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023 marked a surge in comprehensive state data privacy laws. At the beginning of the year, only five states—California, Colorado, Virginia, Utah, and Connecticut—had comprehensive data privacy legislation. By the end of the year, the number of states with privacy laws more than doubled.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the wake of a leaked draft of the decision, Federal legislators introduced a new, targeted data privacy bill to protect reproductive health data. Immediately following the decision, countless individuals dropped their current period-tracking apps in search for another app that would promise to better protect their data.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. Now, we moved into a world of automatic mass surveillance with the rise of the internet and the rise of cheap data storage and processing. I have access to AI tools in a way that I don’t have access to data collection regimes.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

Maintaining regulatory compliance is an essential part of data privacy and should be a key focus for all enterprise organizations. Ethyca automates compliance tasks, including real-time data mapping, automated subject requests, consent management and subject erasure handling. It has raised $332.5 SpiderSilk.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 20, 2025

So, it seems obvious that Regenerons primary interest lies in the genetic data collected by 23andMe, and the situation raises complex ethical, privacy, and security concerns that customers should understand and address.

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Google Security

JANUARY 29, 2025

We also required apps to be more transparent about how they handle user information by launching new developer requirements and a new Data deletion option for apps that support user accounts and data collection. This ensures apps can only access the data they truly need, and users can always grant permissions back if necessary.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Excessive data collection. Carr cited several incidents as evidence that TikTok has been dodgy about its data collection practices. ” The Senate and House committee members, cybersecurity researchers, privacy, and civil rights groups have flagged this as a concern. In China, it is known as Douyin.

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