The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") and Facebook, Inc. have reached a settlement, in which Facebook agrees to pay a fine of £500,000 ($645,000) to the ICO due to the company’s alleged failure to safeguard user’s data gathered by Cambridge Analytica.
Vimeo, a video platform, has been accused of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) for illegally storing, collecting and using individuals' biometric indentifiers and biometric information without written consent.
There are currently 550 fake domains set up against the 19 Democrats and four Republicans presidential candidates, as well as Republican Party funding sites, according to "Typosquatting and the 2020 U.S. Presidential election: Cyberspace as the new political battleground" report, released by Digital Shadows.
A large amount of campaign websites (70 percent) reviewed in an audit failed to meet security and privacy best practices, according to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign Audit by the Online Trust Alliance (OTA).
When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted more than a year ago, it was far reaching, and many organizations were caught off guard because they thought it didn’t apply to them. But in fact, it did. Now the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is about to go into effect.
Anxious feelings towards facial recognition can, if unchecked, reach a point where they undermine common sense and our ability to leverage new technologies in the protection of the innocent and prosecution of the guilty.
Facebook, Inc. will pay a record-breaking $5 billion penalty, and submit to new restrictions and a modified corporate structure that will hold the company accountable for the decisions it makes about its users’ privacy.
Desjardins Group Chief Executive Guy Cormier said the credit union federation will offer free, permanent data protection to all its members in the wake of last month's data breach that affected 2.7 million individuals.
