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CircleCI introduced new platform updates to increase the control, protection, privacy, and confidence of today's engineering teams. "As cloud adoption increases and security concerns grow, we believe that teams shouldn't have to choose between speed or security. We empower them to have both by providing ways to create and manage reusable components, patterns, and processes," said Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO. "CircleCI's latest privacy tools will provide users with an efficient way to share their code and intellectual property across teams, while reducing the risk of revealing secrets and minimizing surface area for attack from bad actors."
Apple released its 2021 Platform Security guide, Thursday, outlining its current and year-ahead agenda for its device hardware, software and silicon security. Previous Platform Security updates have taken a piecemeal approach to address Apple's security universe, said Rich Mogull, analyst and CEO with Securosis.
Virginia is about to get a data privacy law, modeled on California’s law.
An umbrella group comprising 44 consumer-privacy watchdog organizations have filed a complaint against TikTok, saying the wildly-popular video-sharing platform has "Misleading" data-collection policies. "TikTok does not clearly inform its users, especially children and teenagers, about what personal data is collected, for what purpose and for what legal reason," said the BEUC, in a report released Tuesday, along with the complaint.
A panel of experts considers the best methods for safe domestic and international air travel including proof of testing, vaccination passports, and digital health passes. A recent panel conducted by the security firm Concentric Advisors, "Protocols, Testing, and Proof of Vaccine-What is the future of privacy and travel?" took a deep dive predicting how domestic and international air travel can be safely mandated during the continuing COVID-19 worldwide pandemic.
Startpage announced results of its survey exploring the attitudes of Americans towards protecting their own privacy online. The results found a gap between the high levels of online privacy awareness and concern respondents report, and the low levels of action they take to combat increasingly egregious assaults on their privacy.
Telegram has fixed a security issue where self-destructing audio and video files were not being deleted from user's macOS devices as expected. Telegram offers a 'Secret Chat' mode that offers increased privacy than the standard chats.
Arlington, Va.-based data privacy management company WireWheel on Wednesday announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B funding round. WireWheel has developed a SaaS privacy platform that can be used by organizations of all sizes.
For globally operating tech companies, these developments point to a future where data privacy will become a compliance minefield. With an incoming Vice President who has a strong record of promoting consumer privacy protection legislation and a substantial political mandate for change, more stringent privacy laws are a question of when rather than if.
Dating has been a lot tougher for singles since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing many people onto dating apps to supplement the real thing. Most dating apps require users to enter a significant amount of information for safety purposes, but a new report from Mozilla has found that some of the most popular dating apps take a lot more data from you than you'd expect.