Privacy

Digital payments have a hard time staying private. When we make payments using bank accounts and credit cards, we make a Faustian bargain: convenience in exchange for the knowledge... More

Clubhouse resembles a smartphone-based version of conferences but as it continues to expand, its security and privacy failings have come under increased scrutiny.... More

AI software capable of cloning voices is proving a useful weapon for fraudsters.... More

Contactless transactions utilizing an aspect of biometric authentication is predicted to increase by over 520% in the time between 2020 and 2025. Just last year alone, biometrics a... More

Consumers are increasingly aware of their rights, and while data privacy regulation has been a source of anxiety in the past, businesses are increasingly used to and even excited f... More

The deal has seen the operator implement Irdeto Control, the company’s multi-DRM system, to secure their OTT platform serving its TV and broadband customers.... More

Privacy is in for a turbulent 2021, with companies facing more privacy regulations, continued attempts to create backdoors in encrypted communications, and the introduction of a va... More

Half of hacked email accounts are compromised for less than 24 hours, according to a new report. The majority of attackers, 78%, stayed within email accounts, suggesting cloud-base... More

Six months ago, the California Consumer Privacy Act was put into effect, granting California residents increased rights over how their personal data is gathered and shared by the c... More

A number of bogus Facebook pages have emerged in recent weeks, directing fans to non-existent livestreamed shows, in one of a series of Covid-19 streaming scams.... More

A new survey revealed that GDPR-related data breach notifications across European countries have increased by 66%, compared to the first year of the GDPR.... More

It’s more than two years since a flagship update to the European Union’s data protection regime moved into the application phase. Yet the GDPR has been dogged by criticism of a... More

Phishing attacks have grown increasingly more sophisticated over the years. Usually targeting us on emails, sometimes via text messages, they attempt to lure users into providing s... More

The second anniversary of GDPR comes at a time when many businesses have had to quickly adapt to widespread remote working due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which has brought w... More

The COVID-19 global pandemic has forced most companies and their employees to stay home. Despite this lack of physical mobility, people are increasingly using multiple mobile devic... More

With artificial intelligence now used in many of the apps that drive the digital workplace, many enterprise managers are beginning to question the implications this will have for p... More

The dark web is renowned for being the leading marketplace for all kinds of dirty deals, with stolen data being among the most coveted of purchases.... More

The pace and complexity of regulatory requirements continues to grow globally, with no sign of slowing. For businesses, the challenges are not just that new regulations are being p... More

Over the past 30 years, the internet has gone from novelty to necessity. Predicting how we will stay safe in a hyper-connected world over the next 30 years is a hard task, but expe... More

You read that right: GDPR enforcement is on fire! While fines are not always particularly high, our analysis shows that, in terms of volume, data protection authorities (DPAs) are ... More