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...
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...
Twitter had reportedly exposed by accident the ability to look up an account’s phone number country code which could have been exploited by malicious actors to figure out which country the account is from. It is said that the leak could be disastrous for whistleblowers or...
According to a new study by data analytics firm SAS, around 56 percent of 525 adult consumers in the US said they have deleted an app from their device over privacy concerns. Additionally, 36 percent have removed a social media account for the same reasons,...
According to a new study by HR solutions provider CIPHR, as much as a third of HR teams in the UK fail to delete data after the expiration of their personal data retention periods. However, 87 percent confidently said that their processes are ‘fully compliant’ with...
In a report released this week, Dutch authorities said that Microsoft Office’s telemetry data collection mechanism violates the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Investigators found the issues in ProPlus subscriptions of Office 2016 and Office 365, but also with the web-based version of Office...
A startup called Cognigo recently raised $8.5 million in a Series A round which was led by an Israel-based crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, with participation from privacy firm Prosegur and State of Mind Ventures. Cognigo says that it can help businesses become GDPR compliant in days instead...
According to a new research by Merrill Corporation, compliance with EU’s new data protection rules has become a significant obstacle to mergers and acquisitions. More than half of the experts polled for the study said that potential buyers frequently cite concerns over target companies’ compliance with...
Apple’s Tim Cook is set to deliver remarks in support of strong privacy laws at a meeting of international privacy regulators in Brussels on Wednesday. Cook, who will be the keynote speaker at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, is expected to praise...
In what is seen to be a first major test of EU’s GDPR, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said this week that Facebook’s recent breach had affected around 3 million users in Europe. The social media giant initially said that 50 million users around the world had...