A new research report has raised concerns about how in-home smart devices such as AI virtual voice assistants, smart appliances, and security and monitoring technologies could be gathering and sharing children’s data. It calls for new privacy measures to safeguard kids and make sure age appropriate design code is included with home automation technologies. The […]
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SessionM customer loyalty data aggregator snags $23.8 M investment
SessionM announced a $23.8 million Series E investment led by Salesforce Ventures. A bushel of existing investors including Causeway Media Partners, CRV, General Atlantic, Highland Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also contributed to the round. The company has now raised over $97 million. At its core, SessionM aggregates loyalty data for brands to […]
View More SessionM customer loyalty data aggregator snags $23.8 M investmentBritish Airways shows everyone how not to GDPR
Let’s all take a minute to appreciate the view in the British Airways social media cockpit, where staffers at the coalface of the airline’s Twitter account have presided over a wildly unusual ‘interpretation’ of Europe’s new data protection rules. One that, er, suggests quite the opposite of GDPR compliance… Given the company’s social media staff […]
View More British Airways shows everyone how not to GDPRFacebook under fresh political pressure as UK watchdog calls for “ethical pause” of ad ops
The UK’s privacy watchdog revealed yesterday that it intends to fine Facebook the maximum possible (£500k) under the country’s 1998 data protection regime for breaches related to the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal. But that’s just the tip of the regulatory missiles now being directed at the platform and its ad-targeting methods — and indeed, at […]
View More Facebook under fresh political pressure as UK watchdog calls for “ethical pause” of ad opsTimehop discloses July 4 data breach affecting 21 million
Timehop has disclosed a security breach that has compromised the personal data (names and emails) of 21 million users (essentially its entire user base). Around a fifth of the affected users — or 4.7M — have also had a phone number that was attached to their account breached in the attack. The startup, whose service plugs […]
View More Timehop discloses July 4 data breach affecting 21 millionEU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US complies
The European Parliament has been making its presence felt today. As well as reopening democratic debate around a controversial digital copyright reform proposal by voting against it being fast-tracked, MEPs have adopted a resolution calling for the suspension of the EU-US Privacy Shield. The parliamentarians’ view is that the data transfer mechanism does not provide […]
View More EU parliament calls for Privacy Shield to be pulled until US compliesAI spots legal problems with tech T&Cs in GDPR research project
Technology is the proverbial double-edged sword. And an experimental European research project is ensuring this axiom cuts very close to the industry’s bone indeed by applying machine learning technology to critically sift big tech’s privacy policies — to see whether AI can automatically identify violations of data protection law. The still-in-training privacy policy and contract […]
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In the past, California has exerted something like a gravitational pull on the rest of the United States; in both legislation and civil liberties, where the Golden State goes — with its 12 percent of the U.S. population and 14 percent of the country’s GDP — the U.S. has often followed. Digital rights advocates can (and should) hope that it continues with our electronic freedoms.
On Friday, California passed a sweeping consumer privacy bill that provides the strongest protection of consumer data in the U.S. Some are even describing it as California’s own GDPR, the European data protection legislation that went into effect in the E.U. at the end of May. Read more…
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View More 3 ways California is leading the country in digital rightsBank says Ticketmaster knew of breach months before taking action
Ticketmaster UK announced on its site yesterday that it identified malicious malware on June 23rd that had affected nearly five percent of their customers, allowing an unknown third-party access to customers’ names, email addresses, telephone numbers, payment details and login information between February 2017 and June 23rd, 2018. The company says the breach can be […]
View More Bank says Ticketmaster knew of breach months before taking actionStudy calls out ‘dark patterns’ in Facebook and Google that push users towards less privacy
More scrutiny than ever is in place on the tech industry, and while high-profile cases like Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance in front of lawmakers garner headlines, there are subtler forces at work. This study from a Norway watchdog group eloquently and painstakingly describes the ways that companies like Facebook and Google push their users towards making choices that negatively affect their own privacy.
View More Study calls out ‘dark patterns’ in Facebook and Google that push users towards less privacyBigID scores $30 million Series B months after closing A round
BigID announced a big $30 million Series B round today, which comes on the heels of closing their $14M A investment in January. It’s been a whirlwind year for the NYC data security startup as GDPR kicked in and companies came calling for their products. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation […]
View More BigID scores $30 million Series B months after closing A roundDixons Carphone discloses data breach affecting 5.9M payment cards, 105k of which were compromised
European electronics and telecoms retailer Dixons Carphone has revealed a hack of its systems in which the intruder/s attempted to compromise 5.9 million payment cards. In a statement put out today it says a review of its systems and data unearthed the data breach. It also confirms it has informed the UK’s data watchdog the ICO, […]
View More Dixons Carphone discloses data breach affecting 5.9M payment cards, 105k of which were compromised