Privacy
Meta was fined an additional $5.9 million for violating EU data protection regulations with WhatsApp messaging app.
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The ruling was made in the case of a bank robber whose identity was discovered through a geofence warrant.
Data Protection
An optional ‘username key’ adds another layer by requiring a secondary credential before someone can message users.
Privacy
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-6770 and it has been patched with the release of Firefox 150 and Tor 15.0.10.
Privacy
Claims that “Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history” face scrutiny as researchers analyze LinkedIn’s browser extension probing
Privacy
A top U.S. intelligence official on Thursday urged Congress to renew sweeping powers granted to American spy agencies to surveil and examine communications, saying...
Compliance
The European Union warned online giant TikTok on Tuesday to respect EU law and ensure the safety of European users' data, as the video-sharing...
Application Security
Microsoft’s security patching machine hummed into overdrive Tuesday with the release of fixes for at least 97 documented software vulnerabilities, including a zero-day that’s...
Mobile & Wireless
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an Israeli spyware maker’s bid to derail a high-profile lawsuit filed by the WhatsApp messaging service.The justices left...
Cloud Security
AWS has announced that server-side encryption (SSE-S3) is now enabled by default for all Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets.
Compliance
France's data regulator said Wednesday that it had fined Apple eight million euros ($8.5 million) for breaching privacy laws on its App Store.The CNIL...
Compliance
Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices, state Attorney General...
Mobile & Wireless
As smartphone manufacturers are improving the ear speakers in their devices, it can become easier for malicious actors to leverage a particular side-channel for...
Compliance
An individual is offering to sell the data of more than 400 million Twitter users, just as Ireland’s data protection watchdog has announced an...
Privacy
Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that accused the social network of allowing third parties, including...
Privacy
Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from social media platform TikTok to track journalists in a bid to identify the source...
Privacy
Many in the United States see TikTok, the highly popular video-sharing app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, as a threat to national security.The following is...
Compliance
France's privacy watchdog said Thursday it has fined US tech giant Microsoft 60 million euros ($64 million) for foisting advertising cookies on users.
Compliance
The European Union moved closer to a clinching a revamped deal over transatlantic data transfers aimed at resolving concerns about U.S. spying with a...
Privacy
Congress is considering a US federal privacy law. It’s been brewing for the last ten years and is getting closer. On July 20, 2022,...
Compliance
Google has to delete search results about people in Europe if they can prove that the information is clearly wrong, the European Union’s top...
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Organizations are rushing to implement AI without fully grasping where its legal protections begin and end.
(Steve Durbin)
Build your strategy around answering these questions to ensure employees use AI productively while keeping sensitive data, IP, and agent behavior within the boundaries set for safe AI use.
(Etay Maor)
The best compliance programs aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones built on a short list of questions that can actually be answered, and that still hold true when the models change.
(Matt Honea)
You cannot out-patch a machine that writes a working exploit from a vulnerability description in twenty hours. Stop trying to optimize a game you cannot win.
(Danelle Au)
Identity confidence changes throughout every interaction and should be reassessed continuously as new risk signals emerge.
(Torsten George)