China announced this week that its first e-commerce law, which came into force last Tuesday, will ensure that consumers' interests, particularly those related to privacy, will be protected. The e-commerce law will ban online platforms from turning search results into recommendations made only based on the...
Utah may likely be the first state to pass a digital privacy law as state representative Craig Hall recently sponsored House Bill 57 which seeks to offer more protection for online data such as emails and instant messages. Under the bill, any “individual who transmits electronic...
The Australian Digital Health Agency reported this week that My Health Record had been breached 42 times in between July 1, 2017 and June 30, 2018, but there were no malicious attacks involved. The ADHA said that three of the breaches had been reported to the...
Experian’s VP of Data Breach Resolution, Michael Bruemmer said in a recent interview that the hacking of biometric devices is likely to surge in 2019 due to the increased adoption of biometrics as part of a multi-factor or stand-alone protection measure. Bruemmer pointed out that...
In a recent interview, Robert W. Baird and Co.’s Colin Sebastian said that it is likely for the US to come up with its own privacy law in 2019 since most of the dominant tech companies in the country already support it. He said that such...
Scammers have reportedly been able to sneak in a fake Amazon Echo app into Apple’s App Store where it went up to #6 in the Utilities category and got a 9000 rating before being taken down. Reddit users quickly called attention to the malicious app, which...
Vietnam has been criticized for its new cybersecurity law which came into force this January 1, with the US and EU calling it “a totalitarian model of information control” similar to China’s repressive Internet censorship. Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director of HRW said that the new...
Cybersecurity giant Symantec recently warned that poorly crafted cybersecurity and privacy regulations could lead to new vulnerabilities. In a recent interview, Symantec Managing Director Gaurav Agarwal said that such rules could prove counterproductive, which is why there are certain aspects that need to be taken...
Earlier this week, US District Judge Edmond Chang in Chicago dismissed a case which accused Google of violating Illinois privacy laws. Plaintiffs said that Google’s facial recognition software violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act when it collected and stored users’ images without their permission...
South Korea’s Ministry of Unification revealed this week that the personal information of 997 North Korean defectors had been stolen by a hacker by targeting an employee at a defector support center with a phishing email. The support center which got hacked reportedly caters to defectors...