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If your current phone is ready for retirement or you need to sell your current phone to upgrade to a new model, follow these steps to keep your data private. There are several steps you can take to make sure all your data is off the phone and inaccessible.
Cisco has released two studies examining how workers feel about the current state of play when it comes to remote work security and data privacy, finding that thousands around the world are increasingly concerned about how their employers are handling the massive societal changes that have occurred over the last six months. "Cisco's latest privacy research highlights that people care deeply about protecting their data, and many have stopped doing business with companies due to data privacy concerns," said Brad Arkin, senior vice president and chief security and trust officer at Cisco.
Singapore will become the world's first country to use facial verification in its national ID scheme, but privacy advocates are alarmed by what they say is an intrusive system vulnerable to abuse. The technology captures a series of photos of a person's face in various lights.
The UK's data privacy watchdog on Friday slashed a fine imposed on British Airways over a cyber attack after taking into account coronavirus fallout on the embattled airline's finances. The UK Information Commissioner's Office said BA would be fined a "Record" £20 million, considerably less that the proposed amount totalling £183 million.
A FairWarning research, based on survey results from more than 550 global privacy and data protection, IT, and compliance professionals outlines the characteristics and behaviors of advanced privacy and data protection teams. Despite increased regulations, breaches and privacy incidents, organizations have not rapidly accelerated the advancement of their privacy programs as 44% responded they are in the early stages of adoption and 28% are in middle stages.
Protiviti has launched a new privacy offering in response to the evolving privacy landscape, which has been exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Privacy as a Service, is a managed service privacy offering helping companies assess their privacy needs, implement effective compliance measures and respond to new and changing regulations.
Both firms know their users better than those users know themselves; observing trillions of interactions with digital intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, applying these observations to build a predictive model used to direct and shape "Engagement". From fifty-plus years of anti-smoking efforts, we know that getting people to stop using something that they know is bad for them won't be easy.
Avast has announced the appointment of Shane McNamee as Chief Privacy Officer. McNamee has over seven years' experience focusing on data protection and digital rights in a number of high profile organizations, and most recently the Irish Department of Finance and the Data Protection Commission of Ireland.
When buying Internet of Things devices, consumers should understand the risks to their privacy. Here's one way to advise them.
This proposed standard is a first step towards a meaningful global privacy control that will make it simple and easy for consumers to exercise their privacy rights online. The 2003 California Online Privacy Protection Act was amended in 2013 to include a requirement that online services disclose how they respond to the DNT signal.