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Enhance your privacy with this second phone number app deal
2022-11-08 12:21

The Hushed Private Phone Line lifetime subscription gives you a second phone line for calls and texts where you don't want to share your personal number. Hushed earned 4.6 stars out of five on the Apple App Store by being both easy to use and effective at protecting privacy.

Privacy, compliance challenges businesses face after Roe v. Wade repeal
2022-11-04 05:00

In this Help Net Security video, Rebecca Herold, IEEE member and CEO of Privacy & Security Brainiacs, discusses data, privacy, surveillance, and compliance challenges facing businesses in the wake of the US Supreme Court's repeal of the Roe v. Wade decision, which stated that a clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution provides a "Right to privacy" and, through it, a pregnant woman's right to an abortion. In this day and age, when information about individuals is widely collected and/or inferred via online tracking and ubiquitous real-world surveillance technology, what should businesses do when asked to hand over data about their users and employees.

New TikTok Privacy Policy Confirms Chinese Staff Can Access European Users' Data
2022-11-03 06:48

The ByteDance-owned platform, which currently stores European user data in the U.S. and Singapore, said the revision is part of its ongoing data governance efforts to limit employee access to users in the region, minimize data flows outside of it, and store the information locally. "Based on a demonstrated need to do their job, subject to a series of robust security controls and approval protocols, and by way of methods that are recognised under the GDPR, we allow certain employees within our corporate group located in Brazil, Canada, China, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and the U.S. remote access to TikTok European user data," the company said.

Consumers care about their data: Learn how to automate privacy and compliance efforts
2022-10-19 19:57

As a result of the increasing concern over consumer data privacy and protection, many government regulations and compliance mandates now focus solely on consumer data protection. Since the inception of these various consumer data privacy compliance acts, global organizations across diverse industries have faced a common challenge in protecting consumer data to remain compliant.

Security and privacy features in macOS Ventura
2022-10-10 08:00

Apple announced additional security and privacy features for its newest operating system - macOS Ventura. In this Help Net Security video, you'll learn about new security and privacy features in macOS Ventura.

Biden's Privacy Shield 2.0 order may not satisfy Europe
2022-10-08 10:56

The new framework addresses concerns raised in a case decided in 2020 known as Schrems II, named after Max Schrems, the Austrian privacy activist who brought the case to the EU Court of Justice. Schrems II struck Privacy Shield down, in part, because EU citizens had no rights to petition the US government if they felt their data had been improperly gathered.

Mobile Ecosystem Forum CEO talks privacy, security and the future of the mobile industry
2022-10-07 13:51

Mobile Ecosystem Forum CEO talks privacy, security and the future of the mobile industry. TechRepublic spoke with the CEO of MEF, Dario Betti, to understand the growing mobile privacy and security issues, new regulations and their impacts, the passwordless future, and opportunities for the near future.

The gap between security and privacy, and what it will take to bridge it
2022-10-06 04:30

In this Help Net Security video, Bill Tolson, VP of eDiscovery & Compliance at Archive360, talks about the biggest and perhaps only question in information governance right now: Is enterprise data security good enough to ensure data privacy? An Archive360 survey of enterprise IT executives reveals that the No. 1 driver for information governance is data security.

Differences in App Security/Privacy Based on Country
2022-09-29 11:14

The apps we downloaded from Google Play also showed differences based on country in their security and privacy capabilities. One hundred and three apps have differences based on country in their privacy policies.

Privacy watchdog steps up fight against Europol's hoarding of personal data
2022-09-23 06:27

An EU watchdog says rules that allow Europol cops to retain personal data on individuals with no links to criminal activity go against Europe's own data privacy protections, not to mention undermining the regulator's powers and role. The European Data Protection Supervisor has asked Europe's top court to toss out two amendments to the Europol Regulation that took effect on June 28 enabling this data hoarding by the police.