Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Your identity or social security number is one of the most important privacy data elements. This number represents your identity according to your birth certificate within the local government in your state and throughout the United States. A passport number and driver’s license code are also considered to be private data.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

The origins of this case date back nearly a decade following controversies around US Government surveillance and leaks from the now infamous whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Over the years, we saw two cross-border data sharing agreements invalidated. In 2020, the CJEU’s 2020 ‘Schrems II’ ruling invalidated Privacy Shield.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Additionally, digital trust involves several interconnected elements, including: • Security of Systems and Data • Privacy of Data • Transparency of Operation • Accountability when things go wrong • Reliability But why is digital trust suddenly important? What are the origins of the need for a trust framework?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 28, 2021

The rule invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which permitted companies to freely transfer users’ personal data. The reasoning behind this decision is that the US surveillance law (FISA) does not provide adequate protections or remedies for non-US persons in the EU.

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Supplementary Measures Recommendations cover the supplementary measures data exporters may need to adopt in order to keep sending data outside of the EEA. Some countries, by virtue of known surveillance laws, will be deemed non-compliant. The type of data being processed (e.g.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Privacy, schmivacy: FBI head Christopher Wray (pictured) doesn’t see what all the fuss is about. Just renew FISA section 702 already! The post FBI’s Warrantless Spying on US Must Continue, Says FBI appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention. If these critical keys are compromised, certificates and encrypted data are at risk.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 1, 2024

EKEN IoT FAIL: Amazon, Sears and Shein still sell security swerving stuff. The post Cheap Video Doorbell Cams: Tools of Stalkers and Thieves appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Free” privacy proxy for all Chrome users? The post Don’t Be Evil: Google’s Scary ‘IP Protection’ Privacy Plan appeared first on Security Boulevard. Firefox here we come! What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

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SecureWorld News

JULY 20, 2023

Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has taken significant action to address the escalating concern surrounding the misuse of surveillance technology by foreign entities. government's growing concern about the role of surveillance technology in enabling campaigns of repression and human rights abuses.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 29, 2020

If the devastating health and economic ramifications weren’t enough, individual privacy is also in the throes of being profoundly and permanently disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. In general, many companies and government agencies do not have great security. But I’m not the biggest fan of third parties creating the app.

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McAfee

MAY 20, 2021

They are effectively three degrees of a single concept: how data privacy impacts cross-border data flows. Data residency refers to the country where an organisation specifies that its data is stored, usually for regulatory or policy reasons. 8] Let’s take for instance the use of a VPN to protect privacy.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

Common threats include misconfigurations, cross-site scripting attacks, and data breaches. This step reduces the risks of illegal access, data loss, and regulatory noncompliance, as well as protects the integrity and security of sensitive information within SaaS applications.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With all the gathered data on facial recognition technology, it indeed offers significant potential for the security aspects of enterprises. Amazon Rekognition has been well regarded by government agencies and other secure users. However, there are a few noteworthy concerns. Best Facial Recognition Software for 2022.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These principles focus on things that matter to Internet users: Protection from risky systems, protection from discrimination, data privacy, notice and explanation of AI use, and the option to opt out. Just the first step. This is clearly a starting point.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

These are: The Digital Services Act The Digital Markets Act The EU Data Act The Data Governance Act The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act In our previous blog series (part one and part two ) we discussed four of the five new Directives, and how they will affect organisations. How will this affect organisations?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

In a letter dated June 24, 2022, Carr told Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai that “TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data.” Excessive data collection.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 4, 2019

On May 25, the European Union celebrated the first anniversary of the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) , the most important change in data privacy regulations in the last decade, designed to restructure the way in which personal data is handled across every sector (public or private) and every industry.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. That’s a lot of data that, until now, has been difficult to parse at scale. We kind of know what mass surveillance, mass spying looks like. And then the internet came along and made that a whole lot easier.

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