Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This post was originally published on 17 May 2022 Update 19 May 2022 The numbers just keep getting bigger! This article in The Register, has the Irish Council on Civil Liberties, stating that our data is shared up to 987 times a day, when the Real Time Bidding (RTB) industry …
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Having just run a post, where the ICO is promoting it’s Child Code, a very effective way of protecting children, the very next article I read whilst researching the cyber security and privacy news this morning was this: EU Plan to Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse Images Puts Encryption …
Continue reading “And we are back to politicians wanting to end E2EE in the name of child safety!”
This is a difficult one. We, like many businesses and organisations, use email marketing – in our case MailChimp – and as part of these campaigns we have to operate within the GDPR rules and we like to track how people interact with our marketing materials. This is carried out …
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With California, Colorado, Utah and Virginia, Connecticut is the fifth US State to introduce laws protecting user’s privacy. Connecticut becomes fifth state with data privacy law – The Record by Recorded Future
Here is a privacy issue right out of fiction. You know, the movie where the hero sees a reflected detail in a photograph and then the techs clean up the indecipherable blur to reveal the villain. Well researchers have been able to get details from the reflections in people’s eyes, …
Continue reading “That selfie you posted online gives more away about you than you thought…”
This data breach is not due to ransomware or a cyber attack but it appears to be a simple mistake in controlling PII. University of Essex data breach being taken ‘very seriously’ – BBC News Nice to see the lawyers involved. No indication that the ICO is involved yet. Universities …
Microsoft is promising a “VPN” like feature in it’s Edge browser to protect the users private information when browsing. Microsoft adding ‘Secure Network’ to Edge browser • The Register At the moment it is described as a “preview feature” but does not appear to be available yet on any official …
