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Browser Upstart Alleges Ad Firms Are Seeing Too Much Personal DataA web browser startup, Brave, has filed complaints in Europe alleging behavioral advertising companies are violating Europe's...

Suddenly, corps in a rush to fess up to e-break-ins Analysis If Equifax's mother-of-all-security-disasters last year underlined one thing, it was that big companies think they can weather just...

Companies, organizations and sometimes even government agencies have been careless with the personal information they have traditionally collected. In their defense, personally identifiable...

Tony Pepper of Egress Software Technologies on Breach Detection InnovationsThe EU's General Data Protection Regulation, which has tough breach notification requirements, is spurring global...

For many months it was expected that privacy protections afforded to consumers by GDPR would also benefit the bad guys. read more

Individuals Report Organizations for Allegedly Failing to Secure Personal DataThree months after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, the U.K.'s data privacy watchdog...

UK data watchdog's teen tips on how to be more annoying Schools across the UK may have thought results fever was over for another year – but, thanks to the nation's privacy watchdog, they might...

While news sites cut cookies by 22% – but Google retains omnipresence IT consultants, software firms and campaigners spent months touting 25 May 2018 as the dawning of a new era – for better or...

GDPR Forces Companies to Examine How They Treat Data read more

According to a SAS survey, 27% of UK and Irish consumers have already exercised their personal data rights under GDPR, and more are planning to.