Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This investigation has revealed these banks have collectively denied reimbursement of more than $880 million worth of reportedly fraudulent Zelle transactions between 2021 and 2023. As online payment scams become increasingly prevalent, victims have raised significant concerns about consumer protection and financial security.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The European Union (EU) is a pioneer when it comes to privacy laws, so it’s easy to see why Big Tech has spent so much money (about $30 million in 2021 ) lobbying European lawmakers to protect their data gathering practices.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In that same release Wednesday, Samuel Levine, Acting Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said: “SpyFone is a brazen brand name for a surveillance business that helped stalkers steal private information. Since the start of 2021 until yesterday, August 31, 2021, Malwarebytes detected these products a total of 334 times.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

Two months after fully restoring its systems, CNA Financial, the leading US insurance company that was attacked by a group using Phoenix CryptoLocker ransomware, issued a legal notice of an information security incident to the Consumer Protection Bureau in New Hampshire. CNA’s network was compromised in March 2021.

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Centraleyes

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

2021 Hawaii Privacy Bills HB125 (Enacted into Law) In 2021, the Governor of Hawai‘i signed into law (HB125) the Uniform Employee and Student Online Privacy Protection Act creating additional protections for student privacy, and this time imposing liability directly on educational institutions.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It is no coincidence, therefore, that the European Commission’s “ Proposal for a Regulation laying down harmonized rules on Artificial Intelligence ”, published on April 21, 2021 (the Proposal), has several points of contact with the GDPR. …and more. In fact, there are no boundaries for artificial intelligence when it comes to law.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 7, 2023

That enforcement action was taken in coordination with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, which brought a lawsuit under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act against several entities and individuals associated with the enterprise. As a result, these illegal auto warranty robocalls dropped by 99%.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

On July 7, 2021, Colorado became the third state in the US behind California and Virginia to enact a comprehensive data privacy law – the CPA. Below we detail these developments, and provide two takeaways for organizations planning for CPA compliance in 2023. CPA Background.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This announcement marks the first time the California AG has publicly announced a specific enforcement priority under the CCPA since releasing enforcement examples in July 2021. Under the CCPA, the AG has the sole authority to enforce the notice of financial incentive requirement.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 15, 2024

He served as a legislative counsel to the New Jersey Assembly’s minority office from 2019-2021. The ADPPA (American Data Protection Privacy Act) which was voted out in July, 2022 and has been clinging to life since, has left US consumers agitated at the stagnant nature of such a historic, bipartisan initiative for consumer protection.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2022

Curiously, the fraudsters had taken out a loan in Jim’s name with MSF using his real email address — the same email address the fraudsters had used to impersonate him to MSF back in May 2021. 16, 2021, the U.S. ” Buckley notes that on Nov.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. CODEN: From 2016 to 2021. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. It was on a project that Dan Kaminsky presented at Discourse 2019. Maybe I’m thinking about Dan because of that anniversary.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

One month into his second term, President Trump’s actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings and withholding funds allocated by Congress have thrown federal cybersecurity and consumer protection programs into disarray. CONSUMER PROTECTION? Image: Shutterstock.

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