Here you will find all the articles with the tag: GDPR.
Neopets confirmed that one or more attackers recently broke into the company's database. According to an anonymous tip, the personal data of 69 million users is available for four bitcoin. Neopets is a browser game. Its founder started in 1999 and sold the company to Viacom for $160 million in 2... Read more
2 years ago
Civil rights group Access Now urges the European Union to tighten GDPR enforcement. The civil rights group concludes that the GDPR leaves much to be desired in a new report. Access Now states the legislation isn't broken, but privacy authorities in member states spend too much time on handling ... Read more
2 years ago
TikTok received an official warning from Italy's Data Protection Authority (DPA). TikTok no longer asks European users for permission to process personal data in targeted ads. The organization invoked a new basis for data processing, but the Italian privacy authority disputes its ground. TikTok... Read more
2 years ago
Consumer rights groups in Europe have filed a new series of privacy complaints against Google. The company's account sign up process is condemned as "deceptive". According to a report in TechCrunch, the groups accuses the tech giant of deceptive design around the account creation process. The pr... Read more
2 years ago
A pioneer in developer security, Snyk, has announced the launch of new datacenter for its services in Frankfurt, Germany. This move provides additional assistance for European companies looking to develop safe apps while preserving EU data residency. Snyk has grown significantly in EMEA over t... Read more
2 years ago
Medworq, a software provider for general practitioners in the Netherlands, has stored and shared unencrypted patient information for years. A whistleblower recently shared the news with Follow The Money, a platform for investigative journalism. Medworq stored unencrypted patient information of ... Read more
2 years ago
The bloc's privacy regulator laments the lax enforcement by the member states. Cross-border Big Tech privacy cases should be handled by the EU watchdog rather than national agencies, the head of the bloc's data protection watchdog said on Friday. According to Reuters, he went on to lament the po... Read more
2 years ago
The specifics of the UK government's highly expected plan to replace the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have been revealed. According to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the EU's GDPR prevents businesses from utilizing data as flexibly as possible (DCMS). The UK'... Read more
2 years ago
German researchers captured WiFi connection probe requests from passersby to ascertain the data sent without device owners' knowledge. Almost a quarter of all requests exposed the SSIDs (Service Set IDentifier) of networks that devices had previously connected to. WiFi probing is a typical proc... Read more
2 years ago
The rulings bring a two-year collaborative inquiry between the ICO and the Australian Information Commissioner's Office. Clearview AI, a face recognition startup, was fined £7.5 million (8.79 million euros) by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for violating UK data protection regulati... Read more
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