Security News

Microsoft Will Apply California's Privacy Law Nationwide
2019-11-12 13:33

Company's Move Could Influence Other Technology CompaniesMicrosoft will apply the core rights of the California Consumer Privacy Act across all its customers in the U.S., which could nudge other...

Microsoft to Apply California’s Privacy Law to All U.S. Users
2019-11-12 11:50

The move takes a broader stand to protect user data and support the requirements of CCPA nationwide.

Democrats Pose Phone Data Privacy Questions to FCC
2019-11-11 17:33

Congressional Letter Criticizes FCC for Not Enforcing Communications ActDemocratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission...

Privacy Nirvana: Some Assembly Still Required
2019-11-11 16:33

Life Post-GDPR: Veteran CISO Thom Langford Sees Room for ImprovementData privacy discussions must focus not just on collecting, storing and securing data, but also the impetus for doing so - and...

Bill Would Create a Federal Digital Privacy Agency
2019-11-08 14:03

Legislation Spells Out Privacy Rights and Enforcement MeasuresTwo Democratic members of the U.S. House have proposed a national privacy law that calls for the formation of a new federal agency to...

Tech Firms React to Netizens' Digital Privacy Concerns
2019-11-08 11:53

Whistleblowers and digital pioneers have long been sounding the alarm about abuses of our privacy online. Now, a slew of tech entrepreneurs are bidding to turn growing consciousness about the...

California Says Facebook Impeding Privacy Probe
2019-11-07 12:24

California's attorney general on Wednesday accused Facebook of failing to provide a slew of information subpoenaed in a probe of its privacy practices begun last year in the wake of the Cambridge...

Apple details new Safari, Location Services, Sign in with Apple privacy features
2019-11-07 11:28

Apple has updated its privacy pages on Wednesday and shared three new white papers and tech briefs on how Safari, Location Services, and Sign in with Apple protect user privacy. The changes Apple...

Getting Ready for the NIST Privacy Framework
2019-11-06 17:03

By year's end, the National Institute of Standards and Technology should be ready to publish the first version of its privacy framework, a tool to help organizations identify, assess, manage and...

Facebook Privacy Breach: 100 Developers Improperly Accessed Data
2019-11-06 16:52

Facebook said that 100+ third-party app developers had access to restricted data for members of Groups, in its latest privacy snafu.