BH Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Electronic Frontier Federation has a good explainer of the surveillance mechanism behind the world of online ads. The EU Court of Justice has ruled that data protection authorities (DPAs) cant reject GDPR complaints due to their frequency. Connected cars drive roughshod over data privacy. MORE Panopticons on wheels.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 9, 2023

So says famous spycatcher Eric O'Neill, Founding Partner at The Georgetown Group, in the upcoming March 14th Remote Sessions webcast, " Data Privacy and Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Cloud Communications from Modern Cybercriminals. "

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Malwarebytes

MAY 31, 2021

In the UK, a Watchdog would rather police “ reasonably use ” biometrics and surveillance, as opposed to a complete ban. The facial recognition company, frequently in the news even when they may not have been involved, find themselves at the heart of the facial recognition media storm currently playing out.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Shoshana Zuboff lays out how and why control of online privacy has become a linchpin to the current state of wealth distribution in her 2019 New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power. LW: What are the drivers behind this trend?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 2, 2021

News is out that the data will be shared with a notorious US Software firm named Palantir, whose core business is to supply information to companies that are into the business of big data and offering surveillance tech to firms associated with Military, law enforcement, and border forces. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 22, 2023

billion for transferring user data to the US. This is the biggest fine since the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Union (EU) on May 25, 2018. In the past, the social media giant Meta threatened to block its services for users in Europe without a legal basis for data transfers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2023

Over half (55%) of companies use tools and activities to reduce insider threat , roughly the same number (54%) use DLP software, slightly less (50%) use UBA software, and 47% use employee monitoring and surveillance (participants could select more than one answer).

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

No one stops the tech giants, media conglomerates and online advertisers from intensively monetizing consumers’ online behaviors, largely without meaningful disclosure. In one case, ExtraHop tracked a made-in-China surveillance cam sending UDP traffic logs , every 30 minutes, to a known malicious IP address with ties to China.

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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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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As privacy advocates (including Malwarebytes) continue to fight for expanded digital rights amongst all users, it is paramount that we understand how to appeal to a younger generation of future recruits. For Generation Z, that data privacy fight is unlikely to deal with data brokers, Bluetooth trackers, or privacy-invasive web browsers.

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Centraleyes

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Florida Privacy Act attempts to give consumers the right to opt out of sharing their data for targeted online ads, which are often collected and sold by companies to advertisers. This year’s version weaves together some strings of other data privacy laws in the US. Republican Gov.

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Adam Levin

APRIL 8, 2019

A week after it landed with a curious (and most likely spurious) thud, Zuckerberg’s announcement about a new tack on consumer privacy still has the feel of an unexpected message from some parallel universe where surveillance (commercial and/or spycraft) isn’t the new normal.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 28, 2021

The rule invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework, which permitted companies to freely transfer users’ personal data. The reasoning behind this decision is that the US surveillance law (FISA) does not provide adequate protections or remedies for non-US persons in the EU.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2022

Be sure to jump off Instagram and WhatsApp, too, which are both owned by the social media giant. Instead, he wanted to start supporting other companies that will respect him and his data privacy. Absent privacy regulations in the United States, the financial incentives are just too great to ignore. Tired of Facebook ?

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Responsible Cyber

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Topics in this Stream include global surveillance, digital governance, and decoupling in the digital supply chain. CONTACT: Jakub Wasiak , PR and Media Relations Director. jakub.wasiak@ik.org.pl, +48 601 973 680.

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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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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 29, 2024

For decades, governments and companies have surveilled the conversations, movements, and behavior of the public. DAVID RUIZ : We know that mass surveillance has this “Collect it all” mentality—of the NSA, obviously, but also from companies that gather clicks and shares and locations and app downloads and all of that.

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2023

The origins of this case date back nearly a decade following controversies around US Government surveillance and leaks from the now infamous whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Over the years, we saw two cross-border data sharing agreements invalidated. Meta wasn’t using these measures and instead was sending data in the clear.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

The full discussion, which can be heard below, reveals how the Supreme Court’s most recent decision could impact data privacy practices for millions of people in the United States. Underpinning much of this potential shift in data privacy is, of course, the new, legal uncertainty sweeping across the country.

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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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Jane Frankland

JANUARY 12, 2025

Social engineering tactics such as phishing will not only remain prevalent but evolve as attackers leverage AI to craft highly personalised attacks (spear phishing and whaling) , mimicking a victim’s tone or referencing contextual details with alarming accuracy using data from social media, public records, and other sources.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

CISA adds Microsoft SharePoint flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Crooks are targeting Docker API servers to deploy SRBMiner Why DSPM is Essential for Achieving Data Privacy in 2024 SEC fined 4 companies for misleading disclosures about the impact of the SolarWinds attack Samsung zero-day flaw actively exploited in the wild Experts (..)

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Carr mentioned in his letter to Apple and Google that ByteDance “is beholden to the Communist Party of China and required by Chinese law to comply with the PRC ‘s surveillance demands.” ” The Senate and House committee members, cybersecurity researchers, privacy, and civil rights groups have flagged this as a concern.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 5, 2021

For the first time in the past two years, the Ministry of China has disclosed that US is posing as a cyber threat to entities operating on its soil and has added that the Biden led nation is forcing companies to install backdoors to get user data- a clear cut violation of data privacy rules existing across the world.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

And individual states trying to beat Congress to the punch in regulating TikTok or social media generally might violate the Constitution’s Commerce Clause—which restricts individual states from regulating interstate commerce—in doing so. Right now, there’s nothing to stop Americans’ data from ending up overseas.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

Republicans and Democrats produced a pretty comprehensive privacy bill, [Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability (SAFE DATA) Act], with the DATA Privacy Act [Digital Accountability and Transparency to Advance Privacy Act]. We’re not going back to square one.

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