Tag: Data Privacy
Social Media Giants’ Data Collection under FTC Scanner; Amazon, Facebook, and...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the U.S. has issued orders to nine social media and video streaming giants, asking them to provide data...
Ransomware Attacks in 2020! These are 4 Most Affected Sectors
From a local food retailer to a multi-national company, ransomware attacks continue to loom over cyberspace. Ransomware operators target victims by encrypting their sensitive...
Federated Learning Can Solve Security and Data Privacy Challenges: Intel Labs
In many fields like medicine and financial services, the owners of data are bound by regulatory restrictions around data privacy. That can be a...
China Readies the First Draft of Personal Information Protection Law
In the past few years, China has been notoriously known to find ways to violate users’ data privacy. However, in a step towards strengthening...
Microsoft and NCSC Join Hands to Support U.K.’s Cyber Accelerator Program
Microsoft has partnered with the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to support its Cyber Accelerator program to boost cybersecurity startups in the country....
California Voters Say “Yes” to Proposition 24 for Expansion of Data...
California is popularly known as the state that laid the foundation of a stringent data privacy law in the U.S. With its historic amendment...
Lack of Digital Interaction is a Barrier Between U.K. Banks and...
FICO, a global analytics software provider, highlighted all the major barriers to digital interaction between banks and its customer, by surveying security decision makers...
“Invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was a long time coming”
The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was invalidated by the ECJ in July this year. The changes came into effect a month later but were the...
Market Trends Report on Data Security – 2020
Organizations around the globe are investing heavily in the cybersecurity quotient of its IT infrastructure to protect their critical assets. Arguably, with the unprecedented...
Second Largest GDPR Fine! H&M Fined €35.2 Mn for Violating Employees’...
Popular fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz Online Shop A.B. & Co KG (H&M) was fined €35.2 (US$41.1 million) by the Hamburg Commissioner for Data...
