2020 is off to a good start in the United States, with rising consumer awareness about privacy matters, according to new research published on National Data...
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California is changing its Information Practices Act of 1977 to expand the definition of personal information with additional identifiers, including biometric...
Local government agencies in San Francisco are prohibited from using facial recognition technology as a surveillance tool in criminal investigations for fear...
A bipartisan Act proposed by US Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Deb Fischer (R-NE) would counter immoral data collection methods by large online platforms...
A US Senate report on an investigation into the monumental Equifax breach chastises the company for lax security, and proposes heading off similar incidents in...
Time and again, Equifax disregarded warning signs of security vulnerabilities in its IT network, displaying a clear sign of “negligence,” before and after the...
Ransomware attacks have been increasing steadily for a few years, and operators gain confidence with every new strike. While cyber-experts burn the midnight...
Bitcoin has truly taken off, at a current worth of more than 5,000 euros. Other cryptocurrencies are slowly catching up, but there is one special surprise...
The Australian government has drafted laws to gain access to encrypted messages from messaging apps, but tech companies fear this would create backdoors that...
As cyber crime rises globally, the European Union has decided to revise its data protection laws and introduce a unified model for everyone who processes...