SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2024

We are midway through 2024, and data privacy continues to dominate headlines and strategic business decisions across industries. Seventeen data privacy laws have been adopted across the U.S., On July 1st, three new state privacy laws go into effect: (1) Texas ; (2) Oregon ; and (3) Florida.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

judge ruled that the ICO cannot sanction Clearview AI, an American firm that harvested billions of social media images without users' consent for its facial recognition software. data, Clearview appealed, arguing the data was used by foreign law enforcement. Where possible, opt out of data collection for AI training.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2024

California is notoriously on the forefront of implementing expansive cyber privacy regulations and, in turn, prosecution through litigation and other legal avenues to enforce those policies. So, let's take a look at some recent California opinions on matters involving charges of various data privacy violations.

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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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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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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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Centraleyes

JULY 17, 2024

The Florida Digital Bill of Rights (FDBR) is a comprehensive data privacy law that will take effect on July 1, 2024. It consists of three sections addressing data privacy obligations for businesses, protections for children online, and government control over social media platforms. How do I achieve compliance?

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IT Security Guru

MAY 7, 2024

Data brokers are businesses or individuals who collect and sell people’s personal information, including phone details and browsing behavior. In this post, we will look at how data brokers operate and some critical steps we can take to protect our personal information better.

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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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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

The regulation didn't just introduce new rules—it upended the entire approach to data privacy. Designed to safeguard the personal data of EU citizens, it introduced a paradigm shift towards a privacy-first approach. Digital enterprises found themselves compelled to adapt and navigate a new standard of data handling.

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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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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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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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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Ron DeSantis aimed to pass several “priority legislations” set to increase Florida data privacy laws and safeguard consumers against censorship and tracking. This year’s version weaves together some strings of other data privacy laws in the US. Republican Gov.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 7, 2025

Generative AI Generative AI has dominated news, corporate, and social media headlines for nearly two years. It's essential to demonstrate your commitment to data privacy by publishing an AI policy that clarifies how you intend to use customer data. Speculation about its potential ranges from mundane to hysterical.

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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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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 8, 2025

Generative AI Generative AI has dominated news, corporate, and social media headlines for nearly two years. It's essential to demonstrate your commitment to data privacy by publishing an AI policy that clarifies how you intend to use customer data. Speculation about its potential ranges from mundane to hysterical.

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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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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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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

APRIL 9, 2025

A robust 75% said they opt out of data collection, as possible, and 23% have gone a step further, using a data removal service to help clean up any personal information that is easily found online. Individual action The dire privacy concerns shared by many respondents have, for the most part, not resulted in privacy nihilism.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

The snippets of stolen data that USDoD offered as teasers showed rows of names, addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security Numbers (SSNs). Many media outlets mistakenly reported that the National Public data breach affects 2.9 billion people (that figure actually refers to the number of rows in the leaked data sets).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 19, 2025

Governments did better Government services saw the most notable improvement, rising from 37% trust in 2024 to 42% in 2025, driven by enhanced regulatory frameworks like the EUs Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and improved transparency in data handling. Data Privacy & Consent management to rebuild trust transparently and efficiently.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A couple of weeks ago we reported on the concerns surrounding data collection and security at DeepSeek , the Chinese AI company which recently made headlines for shaking up the industry after seemingly appearing from nowhere to become top of the app download charts.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

2023 marked a surge in comprehensive state data privacy laws. At the beginning of the year, only five states—California, Colorado, Virginia, Utah, and Connecticut—had comprehensive data privacy legislation. By the end of the year, the number of states with privacy laws more than doubled.

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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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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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Herjavec Group

JANUARY 22, 2021

January 28 th is Data Privacy Day, an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. This is why the issue of data privacy is so significant and why individuals and enterprises alike should view the protection of personal data as a team effort.

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Centraleyes

JULY 9, 2024

Key Provisions Data Minimization and Purpose Limitation: Companies would be required to collect only the data necessary for specific, disclosed purposes and use it solely for those purposes. Consumer Rights: Individuals would have the right to access, correct, delete, and transfer their personal data.

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

January 28 th is Data Privacy Day, an international effort to empower individuals and encourage businesses to respect privacy, safeguard data, and enable trust. This is why the issue of data privacy is so significant and why individuals and enterprises alike should view the protection of personal data as a team effort.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2025

Governments did better Government services saw the most notable improvement, rising from 37% trust in 2024 to 42% in 2025, driven by enhanced regulatory frameworks like the EUs Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and improved transparency in data handling.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites. Delaware-based Atlas Data Privacy Corp.

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