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In an open letter this week, six data protection and privacy regulators from around the world have asked video teleconferencing organizations to focus on security and privacy-by-design. The regulatory community, which is responsible for ensuring the privacy of individuals worldwide, is concerned that the increased use of video conferencing solutions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the risks associated with the handling of personal information by VTC companies, and has created additional risks as well.
Companies with inadequate data privacy practices are 80 percent more likely to suffer a data breach than those with the highest-ranked privacy practices and will face fines seven times larger than companies with the best scores in the event of a data breach. Privacy issues Companies with the lowest privacy scores lost 600% more records than high-scoring companies.
There's a direct correlation between a company's poor privacy practices and the likelihood of a data breach, according to a report from the data privacy platform Osano, The Osano Data Privacy and Data Breach Link. Businesses with poor privacy practices are 80% more apt to experience a data breach.
Digital privacy is paramount to the global community, but it must be balanced against the proliferation of digital-first crimes, including child sexual abuse, human trafficking, hate crimes, government suppression, and identity theft. The more the world connects with each other, the greater the tension between maintaining privacy and protecting those who could be victimized.
When an organisation's only customer interface is via Facebook or Twitter, it forces customers to agree to terms that harm their privacy in order to communicate. That has not changed from when Privacy Shield was OK for those who preferred not to look too closely, and there is still some margin for using opt-out "Standard contractual clauses" that have been not been ruled invalid, for now.
The EU Court of Justice has struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the political bloc and the US, triggering a fresh wave of legal confusion over the transfer of EU subjects' data to America. Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems brought the latest edition of the long-running case in 2015, complaining that Ireland's data protection agency wasn't preventing Facebook Ireland Ltd from beaming his data to the US. Once his data was in the US, Schrems argued, no EU-style data privacy controls were legally enforceable by him or anyone else in that situation.
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Microsoft's social-media-for-suits tentacle, LinkedIn, has attracted legal fire for allegedly peering at the clipboard of iOS devices. As well as doubtless making the podcast app a bit worse, the upcoming version of Apple's mobile OS also features a bunch of privacy features, including a notification telling the user when an app is reading from the device's clipboard.
Augmented Reality (AR) technologies will provide new opportunities for attackers to compromise the privacy and safety of their victims.
A US Senate panel Thursday approved legislation aimed at combatting online child exploitation as civil liberties activists warned the measure could lead to an array of constitutional and privacy problems. The Judiciary Committee voted to approve a revised version of the Earn It Act which would eliminate "Blanket liability protection" for online platforms which fail to protect against child sexual abuse material.