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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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

social engineer a mobile provider employee to facilitate a SIM swap). Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Another telling finding: some 65 percent of respondents indicated they were extremely or very concerned about websites and mobile apps that proactively track their online behaviors, while only 14 percent said they were not at all concerned. Paradigm shift coming. It’s critical that they openly discuss these fundamental consumer rights.”.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2021

A billion data points, including the usernames and mobile phone numbers of customers have been siphoned off Alibaba websites by a web crawler. A central Chinese court has ruled that an employee of a consultancy firm was guilty of gathering more than a billion data items of Taobao, users since 2019. The court ruling.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Here we’ll discuss the implications to the third-party tracking and data which has been most impacted by recent privacy regulations and protocols. First it is important to understand the different degrees of data privacy. Degrees of privacy. Data collection red flags.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

It’s Data Privacy Day and when it comes down to it, most of us don’t know exactly how many organizations have our data—let alone how it’s being collected or what it is being used for. If there’s no reason why a service should have that data, use a different service (or, at least, give them incorrect information).

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 1, 2024

For example: Privacy and cybersecurity compliance: In the study, consumers preferred mobile phones from companies with robust cybersecurity measures over other features like the device’s color. OneTrust OneTrust focuses on data privacy and compliance management, offering extensive support for frameworks like GDPR and CCPA.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

As thoughts turn to Data Privacy this week in a big way , GDPR illustrates it isn’t an afterthought. Grindr, the popular social network and dating platform , will likely suffer a $ 12 million USD fine due to privacy related complaints. Untangling the multitude of privacy policies. What is GDPR?

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Threatpost

JANUARY 31, 2019

A day after Facebook was dinged for shady iOS distribution techniques of its data-collecting research app, Google was discovered using the same methods for its own app.

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Threatpost

MARCH 27, 2019

The FTC is ordering seven companies - including AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast and more - to outline what data they collect, what they use the data for, and how transparent they're being with consumers.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data privacy issues are a concern for businesses. The privacy policy has this to say about it: “Private mode: no data collection. Such wording may indicate that the service collects the prompts to the chatbot, but there is no hard proof. You.com saves your chat history, but with some major provisos.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): MFA adds an additional degree of protection by requiring users to give multiple kinds of authentication, such as a password and a one-time code texted to their mobile device. Incident Handling When issues develop within the infrastructure of a cloud service provider, teamwork is required to resolve them.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

PROS Light on System Resources ( ) Compatible with most Firefox Extensions ( ) "No telemetry" and "Limited Data Collection" ( this could change, given the first con below) CONS Bought by analytics/adverising company, System1, which is the same company that bought search engine StartPage. Additionally, the default search remains Bing.

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Threatpost

JUNE 5, 2020

Children's app developer HyperBeard must pay $150,000 after the FTC claimed it violated privacy laws.

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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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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

And these are benefits of you ensuring that you have multi factor authentication that your mobile strategy is solid, that you're, you know, one of the big things that we're seeing now is that almost every open source code library that everyone uses everywhere has multiple vulnerabilities in it. This is a federal data privacy law.

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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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Google Security

JANUARY 29, 2025

We also required apps to be more transparent about how they handle user information by launching new developer requirements and a new Data deletion option for apps that support user accounts and data collection. All developers are encouraged to review and comply with the new mobile security standard.

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