European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli said.in a recent interview that he expects the first round of sanctions to happen anytime by the end of the year. He also revealed that since the GDPR came into force, enforcers had been deluged by reports about violations...
Two US states and two EU member states are reportedly investigating the recently reported breach involving Google+ that may have compromised the personal data of around 500,000 users of the social network. Both offices of the Attorney General of Connecticut and New York had already made...
Spain is reportedly including new provisions in its Personal Data Protection and Guaranteed Digital Rights law which will recognize the user’s right to leave instructions regarding his digital legacy. However, tech lawyer Paloma Llaneza argues that handing a deceased person’s online legacy to someone else may...
Google announced this week that it will be shutting down its Google+ social network after an APi flaw had compromised the personal data of around 500,000 users of the platform. Google VP of engineering Ben Smith said the vulnerability they found allowed third-party apps to access...
London’s Heathrow Airport was handed this week a £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for an embarrassing data breach involving a USB stick. The USB stick, which had apparently been lost by an employee, contained 76 folders with over 1000 confidential files and personal data including...
WhatsApp recently disclosed in an email that it has built a system to store the payment data of Indian users domestically, in compliance with the Reserve Bank of India’s new directive. It is said that by complying with India’s storage norms, the Facebook-owned messaging firm...
Sources have said this week that Instagram was caught prototyping a new privacy setting where user location data will be shared with its parent company Facebook. It is said that this will allow Facebook to target users with ads using their exact GPS coordinates collected by...
At the recently held PrivacyTech event, privacy and marketing compliance firm OneTrust unveiled its new Global Readiness and Accountability platform which maps out a number of global privacy laws and security frameworks, including the GPDR, Brazil's new general data protection law (LGPD), the Australia Privacy...
Blockchain journalist Luke Fitzpatrick wrote this week that Australia’s proposed ‘Access and Assistance’ bill, which may put an end to the online privacy of Australians, may also kill decentralized apps (DApps). DApps, which have become the primary way users interact across the blockchain, are likely to...
Democratic senators Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter this week to the Federal Trade Commission expressing their concern on apps that may be collecting children’s data. The move follows a lawsuit filed by the New Mexico Attorney General against Google...