Tag Archives: Data Privacy

GDPR One-Year Anniversary: Data Privacy Still Needs Help (eWeek)

A year after the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation in the European Union on May 25, 2018, the protection and privacy controls of personal data remain hot-butto... More

Google to Set Up a European Tech Hub to Deal With Data Privacy (CNBC)

Google will more than double its team of privacy experts in Germany as Europe looks to ramp up regulation of Big Tech and user data. CEO Sundar Pichai announced in a blog post on T... More

California’s New Data Privacy Law Could Change the Internet in the U.S. (CNBC)

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

Hot Job Alert: Anything With ‘Privacy’ In the Title (Fortune)

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

Data Privacy vs. Data Protection: Understanding the Distinction in Defending Your Data (Forbes)

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

Data Privacy in a Personalized Media World (Raconteur)

Television’s place at the heart of mass culture is no more. Streaming services provide higher revenues to entertainment companies than traditional broadcasting and media consumpt... More

Data Breaches Hit All-Time Record High, Increased 40% in 2016 (Help Net Security)

The number of U.S. data breaches tracked in 2016 hit an all-time record high of 1,093, according to a new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) and CyberScout. This r... More

Playing the Blame Game: Breaking Down Cybersecurity Attribution (HelpNetSecutiry)

Attributing the adversary behind a cyber attack ranks as perhaps the hardest challenge in all of cyber security, well beyond securing networks from intrusions, for the simple reaso... More

Defending Against Hackers Took a Back Seat at Yahoo, Insiders Say (New York Times)

Six years ago, Yahoo’s computer systems and customer email accounts were penetrated by Chinese military hackers. Google and a number of other technology companies were also hit.... More

Security, Privacy, Risk: Think Convergence (Bank Info Security)

Security leadership has come a long way since the days when the CIO - and later CSO or CISO - was required to just be an information security or "cyber" expert. Running a security ... More