Privacy

The California Consumer Privacy Act will go into effect Jan. 1, 2020, putting greater restrictions around how companies can collect and use data, like Europe’s General Data Prote... More

At Google’s I/O, we saw demos from Pichai showing how “our work on privacy and security is never done. And we want to do more to stay ahead of constantly evolving user expectat... More

The march of technology has created a huge demand for ethical hackers, or “white hats”: people skilled at using computers who can protect our systems and battle those with bad ... More

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual F8 developer conference Tuesday with more details about his new "privacy-focused" vision for the social network -- in... More

Consumers are happy that regulators are finally taking charge of data privacy needs and creating laws that force technology companies, financial institutions, and others in the mar... More

The problem with passwords is they do not scale. An individual could have hundreds of passwords while privileged users could have upward of thousands of passwords. Without a system... More

Global data governance is at a crossroads. As the days of a free-wheeling cyberspace in the 1990s and early 2000s seem more and more remote, countries are increasingly taking steps... More

Google Cloud today introduced Policy Intelligence in beta, a series of AI-powered features designed to suggest actions by administrators aimed at improving security for organizatio... More

After two years in the making, the European Parliament on March 26 passed a sweeping copyright directive that could have a major impact on big technology companies. The European Pa... More

For years, Apple has gone after the luxury market with its hardware products. Now, its latest luxury offering isn't a gold smartwatch or a nearly $1,500 iPhone, but a safer digital... More

Google just made it easier to lock down your account if you're a G Suite user. The internet giant is trotting out a series of updates for two-step verification, starting with the i... More

Sometime in March or April, the European Parliament will vote on a set of major changes to European copyright law, including the creation of taxes on links and mandatory filtering ... More

5G is such a technologically important leap forward–without it the future smart cities we dream about where everything is connected simply wouldn’t be possible. However, there ... More

Wanted: privacy software engineers, privacy officers, and privacy attorneys. In fact, anything with “privacy” in the title will do. Data privacy workers have become hot commodi... More

To help people understand the scope of the data breach and privacy problem, researchers are beginning to look at it through the lens of economics.... More

The EU's General Data Protection Regulation sent organizations across Europe into a tailspin over their data storage and privacy procedures, and months on, only 59 percent of compa... More

Privacy and security are converging, thanks to the rise of big data and machine learning. What was once an abstract concept designed to protect expectations about our own data is n... More

Despite the frequency of data breaches and their accompanying publicity, not many people actually understand the key concepts concerned with data storage, such as the difference be... More

With California’s population at an estimated 40 million people, it's hard to think of many companies that won’t be impacted by this law.... More

Most security systems today are built with data confidentiality in mind. This is a crucial exercise, but confidentiality only makes up for one dimension of data privacy. Because of... More