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The healthcare industry was hesitant to adopt SaaS applications. Learn how to secure your entire SaaS stack with an SSPM solution.
The U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission announced that Amazon has agreed to pay a $25 million fine to settle alleged children's privacy laws violations related to the company's Alexa voice assistant service. Amazon also faces a $5 million fine for privacy violations associated with its Ring video doorbell service.
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority, the country's data privacy watchdog, has banned behavioral advertising on Meta's Facebook and Instagram social networks. Meta extensively monitors the users' actions, meticulously tracking their activities across its platforms, according to the Norwegian DPA. The company uses content preferences, the info they post on Facebook and Instagram, and their location information to build personalized profiles that simplify targeted advertising, a tactic commonly known as behavioral advertising.
Discover how HealthEdge deals with security and data privacy in the face of rapid expansion. "Healthcare is beset by ransomware gangs and this led to an increase in confirmed data breaches in 2022," said Suzanne Widup, a researcher for the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report.
Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Print services should also communicate clearly upfront what information they're collecting and why.
Instagram Threads, the upcoming Twitter competitor from Meta, will not be launched in the European Union due to privacy concerns, according to Ireland's Data Protection Commission. Threads is Meta's answer to Twitter that's set for launch on July 6, 2023.
The Brave team has announced that the privacy-centric browser will soon introduce new restriction controls allowing users to specify how long sites can access local network resources. "Surprising though it may be, most browsers allow websites to access these local resources just as easily as they can access other resources on the web," explains Brave.
At one time, executive protection meant providing bodyguards and secure transit and fortifying executive offices against external threats. Executives are particularly at risk for "Whaling" attacks, where a criminal impersonates an executive via email or another means of communication and asks the target for money and/or information.
Regulatory bodies are taking potential data privacy violations much more seriously this year after a relatively quiet period that followed the enactment of regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act. In this Help Net Security video, Kris Lahiri, CSO at Egnyte, believes data privacy violations cast a long shadow and takes a closer look at the lasting consequences.
Microsoft has agreed to pay a $20 million fine and change data privacy procedures for children to settle Federal Trade Commission charges over Children's Online Privacy Protection Act violations. COPPA is a U.S. federal law designed to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13 on the internet by requiring parental consent, the ability to review and ask for the deletion of the child's personal information, the ability to refuse data collection, implement security protections for the collected information, and more when registering online accounts.