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The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned today that threat actors could potentially target the February 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and March 2022 Paralympics. "The FBI to date is not aware of any specific cyber threat against the Olympics, but encourages partners to remain vigilant and maintain best practices in their network and digital environments," the US security service said in a private industry notification issued on Tuesday.
We're going to say it anyway: "Happy Data Privacy Day!". GET TO KNOW YOUR PRIVACY CONTROLS. Take the time to learn what privacy controls are available in all the apps and online services you use.
Data Privacy Day is a day to focus on best practices for ensuring private data remains that way. While in theory every day should be Data Privacy Day, having an annual day to focus on promoting these concepts can help build awareness and share useful information.
Cisco's 2022 data privacy study finds that privacy budgets are up, and companies are seeing good return on these investments. Survey respondents cited strong support for privacy laws with 83% saying these rules have had a positive impact.
Apple is preparing to repair a bug in its WebKit browser engineer that has been leaking data from its Safari 15 browser at least since the problem was reported last November. Updates made available on Thursday to Apple developers - iOS 15.3 RC and macOS 12.2 RC - reportedly fix the flaw, an improper implementation of IndexedDB API that allows websites to track users and potentially identify them.
The British government's PR campaign to destroy popular support for end-to-end encryption on messaging platforms has kicked off, under the handle "No Place To Hide", and it's as broad as any previous attack on the safety-guaranteeing technology. Judging by videos earnestly distributed by organisations supporting it, the No Place To Hide campaign is much wider than merely targeting Facebook Messenger as was previously thought.
In this interview with Help Net Security, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Senior Privacy Counsel and Legal Engineer at Immuta, talks about data privacy, what organizations can a must do to keep data secure, and explains the technologies that can help optimize data protection processes. According to the Immuta State of Data Engineering Survey, organizations are increasingly adopting multiple cloud technologies to keep up with the scale, speed, and use cases required by modern data teams.
The official app for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, 'My 2022,' was found to be insecure when it comes to protecting the sensitive data of its users. Finally, the app violates China's own laws regarding privacy protection.
DeleteMe releases its privacy predictions for 2022, based on developments seen in 2020/2021 as well as original research conducted for its 2021 PII Marketplace Report. "A lot of things related to online privacy have changed in the last 2 years, and we see significant new developments coming in 2022 in areas like browser-tracking, digital identity, regulatory compliance, and how online PII gets exploited by both threat actors as well as industry," said Rob Shavell, CEO at DeleteMe.
"Privacy Center provides helpful information about five common privacy topics: sharing, security, data collection, data use and ads," the social technology firm said in a press release. Users part of the pilot will be able to access Privacy Center by navigating to Settings and Privacy on the desktop version of Facebook.