The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

To provide even further insight into the data safety and privacy practices of app developers, researchers at Incogni conducted a study of the top 500 paid and top 500 free Google Play Store apps. percent) of the apps share user data with third parties. Greediest data harvesters. They share a lot of data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consumer Expectations Privacy Rights and Seamless Online Experiences An overwhelming 87% of consumers expect privacy rights from online interactions, with the most significant expectations being the right to be informed about data collection (55%) and the right to data erasure (53%).

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s a harsh realization we are dealing with more by the day as social media, and a litany of applications and hosted software products invade our daily lives, and in the process, our privacy. Now TikTok wants the ability to put an actual face and voice to those other data sets, and it’s… dangerous.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

Like its nearest US equivalent, Amazon, the company also runs cloud services, a payment service (Alipay), and is active in digital media. 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. In 2005 it started a close cooperation with Yahoo!

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

Maryland Takes the Lead in Privacy Legislation with Comprehensive MODPA The Maryland legislature enacted two comprehensive privacy bills to limit how big tech platforms can acquire and utilize customers’ and children’s data. states in enforcing its residents’ privacy rights thus far.

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Threatpost

APRIL 17, 2019

After a report revealed that Facebook used user data to leverage its relationships with other companies, researchers are stressing that both firms and users need to re-assess data privacy.

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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

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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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The company received a finding of law from the Swiss government that it will not be treated as a telecommunications provider, exempting it from laws that would mandate data collection. surveillance and accept GDPR as a global “gold standard” of privacy protections. are wary of U.S.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

Under certain data privacy regulations and laws, there is a specific requirement that employees be trained on the privacy practices within the organization,” said Rebecca Rakoski, co-founder and managing partner at XPAN Law Partners.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Then, the derived insights let you monitor market trends, customer behavior, competitor pricing, and other key data collected via market research. Successful extraction of public data from the internet can be a tricky process, especially when visited websites use protection algorithms. Why Choose Residential Proxies?

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

From our safe portal, everyday people can view past password breaches, active social media profiles, potential leaks of government ID info, and more. Why data matters I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read that “data is the new oil” without reading any explanations as to why people should care.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Steve Dickson of Netwrix, says that staying compliant with data privacy regulations like CCPA and GDPR requires storing sensitive data in secure locations. In our r esearch , data privacy was a No. TomRaftery CreativeCommons Credit: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. But compliance costs money.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Users enjoyed using them to compose poems and lyrics in the style of famous artists (which left Nick Cave, for example, decidedly unimpressed ), researchers debated blowing up data centers to prevent super AI from unleashing Armageddon, while security specialists persuaded a stubborn chatbot to give them phone-tapping and car-jacking instructions.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

SC Media caught up with Haaland to get her take on challenges and lessons learned during a year transformed by the COVID-19. As you might suspect, I’m not going to speculate on administration policy, but I think in general we are seeing continued movement – both domestically and abroad – towards enhanced data privacy.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

All sensitive data should only be stored for the amount of time required and in accordance with any data privacy policies,” said Smith. Long-term data storage is often a liability rather than an asset,” added Costlow. I’m worried about the legal implications of this as well.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

So from software, media, everything else of that nature. VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side. There are also benefits to the end user as well, such as increased privacy. GRAY: But back to the quick thing you brought up before privacy requirements are going up, and that's a good thing.

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Spinone

JULY 3, 2020

As the GDPR directive states, any information that is somehow related to a person classifies as personal data. Here are a few examples: a photo, name, email address, phone number, social security number, posts in social media, I.P. No matter if this data is private, public, or work-related – if it is personal, it is personal.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2023

TikTok is also under the scrutiny of Canadian privacy regulators that are investigating whether the company obtains valid and meaningful consent from users when collecting their personal information. “All it does is prevent officials from reaching the public on a platform loved by millions of Canadians.”

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

I have access to AI tools in a way that I don’t have access to data collection regimes. The tech monopolies are so powerful, and we saw that with social media. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier. I wanted to separately ask: We talked about corporations. We talked about governments.

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