The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office had reportedly chosen this week Simon McDougall to head its policy and innovation team. Formerly from Deloitte, McDougall had been the global lead for a privacy and data protection at Promontory Financial, a risk and compliance firm which was bought...
Sharon Polsky, president of the Privacy and Access Council of Canada, recently called out companies that use starter interrupters and similar technologies. She said that such devices does not create a level playing field and only benefits the companies, to the detriment of their customers....
TradeDesk CEO Jeff Green said this week that Google's move on privacy is pushing advertisers to companies such as his after the GDPR caused the search giant to remove access to measurement data critical for building online campaigns. The digital ad firm’s shares went up 32%...
Facebook awarded this week $800,000 to 10 winners of its “Secure the Internet” grants program which focuses on security and privacy related projects made available to universities and research organizations. Outgoing security chief Alex Stamos announced that two organizations won $100,000, while the rest will be...
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology revealed that an app called Couple Vow had exposed the passwords of its 1.7 million users in plain text. The researchers said that the apps flaws were quite rudimentary, as all they had to do was...
Juniper Research predicts in its recent study that a cumulative loss of 146 billion records will reached over the next five years, with over 12 billion records expected to be compromised this year. It was also predicted that around 33 billion records will be stolen by...
Criptext announced this week the launch of its new email app which vows to be privacy-focused and hyper-secure. CEO Mayer Mizrachi says that Criptext does not collect user data in its servers and instead stores the entire inbox only on the user’s device. It also uses...
A researcher who goes by the handle MG recently said that it was possible to hijack a Macbook using a modified USB-C type charger. MG said that by replacing the internals of a normal charger, he was able to take control of a computer without the...
The US academic community this week wrote an open letter to Facebook, requesting that the tech giant formally amend its terms of service to exclude academic researchers from the company’s efforts to protect its users. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University explained to CEO...
UpGuard revealed last Thursday that a set of sensitive documents belonging to popular hosting company GoDaddy had been left exposed due to a misconfigured AWS bucket. The security firm’s Cyber Risk Team said that the information that had been left public includes GoDaddy’s architecture and high-level...