Security News

Supreme Court Bolsters Mobile-Phone Privacy Rights
2018-06-22 17:40

Supreme Court decision requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant to gain access to cellphone records for tracking citizens.

Are Europe's data privacy concerns overblown?
2018-06-22 16:19

The EU has long been a champion of data protection, but did the GDPR go too far? The regulation may not be enough to protect big data, said Alex Feinberg.

Israeli government weighs in on Facebook privacy, promises action
2018-06-21 20:02

Intelligence boss whines about smartphone privacy Facebook - already kicked around the block by politicians in the US and Europe over privacy in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal - has...

New trends advance user privacy
2018-06-15 11:45

Privacy and security online are one of the top concerns of Americans, especially after numerous massive data breaches (Equifax, Yahoo, Uber) that happened in the past couple of years. According to...

Facebook's delicate dance between privacy and shareholder value
2018-06-14 19:17

Most people or business decision-makers don't have the time or energy to care about Facebook privacy, says Alex Feinberg, but they should.

US Government’s biometric database worries privacy advocates
2018-06-11 11:03

It is something few Americans will have heard of, but the US Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) is catching the eye of privacy advocates - and not in...

GDPR: UK Privacy Regulator Open to Self-Certification
2018-06-08 13:33

Focus on Continuous Compliance and Breach Response, Experts SayOne day, organizations may be able to self-certify their GDPR compliance, says an official at the U.K.'s data privacy regulator....

New Data Privacy Regulations
2018-06-08 11:48

When Marc Zuckerberg testified before both the House and the Senate last month, it became immediately obvious that few US lawmakers had any appetite to regulate the pervasive surveillance taking...

Facebook bug changed 14 million users’ default privacy settings to public
2018-06-08 08:03

Facebook admits as many as 14 millions of its users who thought they're sharing content privately with only friends may have inadvertently shared their posts with everyone because of a software...

Facebook Admits Privacy Settings 'Bug' Affecting 14 Million Users
2018-06-07 20:53

Facebook acknowledged Thursday a software glitch that changed the settings of some 14 million users, potentially making some posts public even if they were intended to be private. read more