Washington state Sen. Reuven Carlyle recently proposed a new bill that will seek to give consumers more control over the data organizations such as data brokers collect from them. Carlyle says that his bill will require companies to allow consumers to correct inaccurate information, delete their...
Iowa State University researcher Ying Cai was recently awarded two patents for his location-cloaking technology which can limit the information companies can extract from location data collection from mobile phones. Cai says his technology can provide location information as precise as possible while giving the user...
A group made up of the Communications Alliance, Australian Industry Group, Australian Information Industry Association, Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association, Digital Industry Group Inc, and Information Technology Professionals Association recently issued a list of changes they wish to make on Australia’s encryption laws. The list included a...
According to a recent survey from software analytics company SAS, more than two thirds of consumers in the US want the government to protect data privacy and are ready for regulations similar to EU’s GDPR. Polling 525 US respondents in July 2018, SAS found 66 percent...
It was announced this week that French data protection watchdog CNIL had given Google a hefty €50 million fine for violating the GDPR’s rules on transparency and lacking legal basis to process personal data. Privacy activist and lawyer Max Schrems of non-profit NOYB (None of Your...
Security researcher Justin Paine divulged this week that he had found an unprotected ElasticSearch server containing sensitive information on around 108 million bets, including the personal information of customers, deposits, and withdrawals. Paine said that the information was likely to have been aggregated from multiple domains,...
A new study from the University of Adelaide in Australia and the University of Vermont in the United States recently showed that an individual’s personal information can still be harvested even after he has deleted his social media accounts. According to the study, which was published...
Earlier this week, a panel of experts under the Japanese communications ministry called for the expansion of the country’s telecommunications law to include foreign businesses such as Google and other tech giants which are currently exempted from communication privacy provisions. The expansion would subject non-Japanese...
The National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF) recently set up two new research centers dedicated to the development of privacy-focused technologies, in support of Singapore’s privacy-aware smart nation initiative. The National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Research in Privacy Technologies (N-CRiPT) in the NUS School of...
Activist lawyer Max Schrems of non-profit NOYB recently filed a complaint against tech giants Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube for allegedly not complying with the GDPR in Austria. Noyb said in its statement that the companies had failed to provide their users the exact data...