Tag: Privacy
CANADA IS USING ANCESTRY DNA WEBSITES TO HELP IT DEPORT PEOPLE
By Tamara Khandaker Jul 26, 2018
In another example of the extraordinary lengths Canadian immigration officials go to deport migrants, the Canada Border Services Agency has been...
Report shows increase in social engineering
 Emma Bordessa  13th July 2018
Proofpoint’s The Human Factor 2018 Report revealed that over the past year, cyber criminals have continued to increase their use of social...
Goodman of ARMA’s Board Sees New California Privacy Act as ‘De...
July 16, 2018
California's new Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 is likely to be treated as a de facto nationwide requirement, says information privacy expert Susan Goodman, a member...
German police raid cyber-privacy groups
WRITTEN BY
Patrick Howell O'Neill
JUL 5, 2018 | CYBERSCOOP
A suite of internet privacy-enabling tools is at the center of a storm brewing in Germany over...
Privacy Group Asks Court To Revive Suit Over Facebook Tracking
by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, July 5, 2018
Weighing in against Facebook, the advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center says a group of consumers should be allowed to...
Why Privacy Should Be The Biggest Concern Of 2018
June 6, 2018
The recent start of the EU’s GDPR has added an even greater sense of urgency for a Facebook executive team already under intense pressure...
Huge new Facebook data leak exposed intimate details of 3m users
14 May 2018, updated 15 May 2018
New Scientist reports:
Data from millions of Facebook users who used a popular personality app, including their answers to intimate questionnaires,...
Instagram to udpate their Terms and Data Policy effective July 14,...
Below is the message that was sent to Instagram users on 6/15/2018.
You may have seen a notification or an email a few weeks ago...
The White House looks to coordinate online privacy plan
June 20, 2018
The White House is in the early stages of determining what a federal approach to online data privacy should look like, Axios...
Under COPPA, data deletion isn’t just a good idea. It’s the...
By: Jared Ho | May 31, 2018 2:04PM
Buckling up in the car is a precaution parents take to protect themselves and their children. When...
Facebook confirms that it tracks how you move mouse on the...
By:Â Shweta Ganjoo - June 12, 2018
Data security is a modern age myth. In the recent times, tech giants, particularly Facebook, have been accused...
Facebook Ignites Debate Over Third-Party Access to User Data
March 19, 2018 - WSJ
Facebook Inc. FB 1.15% ignited a firestorm over how it manages third-party access to its users’ information, after the social network said a firm...
Hands off my data! 15 default privacy settings you should change...
Say no to defaults. A clickable guide to fixing the complicated privacy settings from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple.
5 keys to innovating without sacrificing privacy, security or compliance
By
Heidi Maher
Published
May 29 2018, 6:30am EDT
In the wake of the Facebook data compromise debacle, every company that wants to innovate needs to challenge the...
Data Privacy Considerations in Canada: Consent under PIPEDA
By Brenda Barnhill - June 4, 2018
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act
The overarching federal law that addresses data privacy in Canada is...
The Privacy Lawyer Giving Big Tech an $8.8 Billion Headache
At midnight last Friday, the European Union’s long-awaited new data-protection rules, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, officially kicked in.
Forty-eight minutes later, Facebook and...
4 Key Benefits Of Financial Spring Cleaning
It’s springtime, and for many of us, that signals an annual tradition – time to clean. Besides the sense of accomplishment, sparkling countertops and...
How transparent is FOIA?
By Chase Gunter - Mar 13, 2018
On Capitol Hill, senators are complaining that there's too little transparency surrounding the government's premier transparency law.
While the...
As the CLOUD Act sneaks into the omnibus, big tech butts...
Taylor Hatmaker@tayhatmaker / Mar 22, 2018
As the House advances a 2,232-page spending bill meant to avert a government shutdown, privacy advocates and big tech...
Company bolsters enterprise communications service
Ryan Chiavetta, CIPP/USÂ - Author posted March 2nd, 2018
In case it hasn’t been obvious by now, the stories surrounding compromised elections are not going away...
Amazon Reports Spike in US Law Enforcement Requests for User Data
Government requests for data from Amazon Web Services spiked in the first half of 2017
Top Dems call on Twitter, Facebook to investigate Russian bot campaign
BYÂ ALI BRELANDÂ -Â 01/23/18 11:55 AM EST
Top-ranking Democrats in the House and the Senate are calling on Twitter and Facebook to launch investigations of potential Russian-linked...
Free Encrypted Email Does Exist
Ever wonder how email become encrypted or if this technology is available to you? Check out ProtonMail. ProtonMail, used by privacy conscience consumers, offers...
Utah’s attorney general on what to expect from states in 2018
by Divonne Smoyer, CIPP/US and Kimberly Chow, CIPP/US
Sean Reyes was appointed to the position of Utah Attorney General in 2013 and elected to a...