The District of Columbia and three states are suing Google for allegedly deceiving consumers and invading their privacy by making it nearly impossible for them to stop their location from being tracked.
Fines issued for GDPR non-compliance increased sevenfold from 2020 to 2021, analysis shows
A new ruling from the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA) traps EU/U.S. data transfers between a rock and hard place. The rock is GDPR. The hard place is FISA. And the two are fundamentally incompatible.
Automated security validation firm has now raised nearly $190 million in funding
Boston, USA and Tel Aviv, Israel-based automated security validation (ASV) firm Pentera has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round led by K1 Investment Management, with participation from Evolution Equity Partners and Insight Partners.
French regulators have hit Google and Facebook with 210 million euros ($237 million) in fines over their use of “cookies”, the data used to track users online, authorities said Thursday.
A judge said Thursday he will fine Cyber Ninjas, the contractor that led Arizona Republicans’ 2020 election review, $50,000 a day if the firm doesn’t immediately turn over public records related to the unprecedented inquiry.
Switzerland’s army has banned the use of WhatsApp whilst on duty, a spokesman confirmed Thursday, in favour of a Swiss messaging service deemed more secure in terms of data protection.
The ban also applies to using other messaging apps like Signal and Telegram on soldiers’ private phones during service operations.
WhatsApp is adding more details to its privacy policy and flagging that information for European users, after Irish regulators slapped the chat service with a record fine for breaching strict EU data privacy rules.
The Right to be Forgotten (technically the right to erasure or for users to have personal data removed from service providers’ records) creates a big problem for suppliers. This right is becoming standard across the new global wave of data protection and consumer privacy legislation that has followed GDPR.
