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Federal police broke Canada's privacy laws by using a US company's controversial facial recognition software in hundreds of searches, an independent parliamentary watchdog ruled Thursday. In a report to lawmakers, privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said Clearview AI's collection of images without consent and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's use of that database were illegal.
Huawei has opened another cyber security centre and, despite facing a crisis of trust in the West, has chosen to do so for the first time in its Chinese heartland. Perhaps timely, Huawei's security baseline includes incident response procedures, with security patching a feature of a product's long-term maintenance.
Amazon this week activated its proprietary mesh network known as Sidewalk, linking tens of millions of Amazon smart devices, each sharing a tiny sliver of their bandwidth to provide a wide network of connectivity even when and where WiFi service is poor or unavailable. This explains why the default setting contained in the Sidewalk software downloaded and installed by Amazon in participating devices is 'on' - making Sidewalk opt-out rather than opt-in.
The data privacy management software market saw soaring growth in 2020 with worldwide revenues up 46.1% year over year. In addition to the expanding data privacy regulations, organizations are also dealing with expansive and growing data volumes across a patchwork of databases and endpoints.
Brandon Vigliarolo talks to Karen Roby about the new privacy features that Apple revealed during the keynote of WWDC 2021.
Apple on Monday announced a number of privacy and security-centric features to its upcoming versions of iOS and macOS at its all-online Worldwide Developers Conference. Users can either opt to update to the latest version of iOS 15 for all the latest features and most complete set of security updates or continue on iOS 14 and still get important security updates until they are ready to migrate to the next major version.
Encryption and verification package Pretty Good Privacy has celebrated a troubled 30 years of securing secrets and giving cypherpunks an excuse to meet in person, with original developer and security specialist Phil Zimmermann toasting a world where encryption is common but, he warns, still under threat. Following the end of the criminal investigation into Zimmermann, the PGP team set up PGP Inc. which was quickly gobbled up by security specialist Network Associates Inc. in 1997.
On Monday, at its 2021 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled several privacy features that are coming with its new iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, and watchOS 8 operating systems later this year. Apple announced iCloud+, which brings several new features on top of iCloud, including a new private browsing service named Private Relay.
Apple previewed new privacy protections in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, and watchOS 8, which help users better control and manage access to their data. With App Privacy Report, users can see how often each app has used the permission they've previously granted to access their location, photos, camera, microphone, and contacts during the past seven days.
Apple is once again demonstrating that it's all in on privacy with new user-protecting features for Mail, Siri, iCloud and additional app-tracking metrics. While there wasn't a single hardware announcement, as was hoped and predicted, the software announcements that Apple made at WWDC 2021 were extensive and are likely to be well-received by iPhone, iPad and Mac users, and privacy stands out as a central theme.