Google, YouTube to pay $170m for collecting data on kids for targeted advertising
YouTube banned from using behavioral advertising on kids content, but it’s not watertight.
YouTube banned from using behavioral advertising on kids content, but it’s not watertight.
Facebook settles FTC privacy charges but two commissioners think the terms won't change the company's behavior.
The laissez-faire attitude of many companies towards consumer privacy protections is catching up with them after a series of massive fines sent shockwaves through a business community already reeling from an escalating cybersecurity threat climate.
David Braue | 17 Jul | Read more
UK privacy watchdog challenges Facebook to drop appeal after Mark Zuckerberg's weekend call for more regulation of Internet companies.
Swedish consumer group accuses Google of offering consumers too vague explanations.
Google gets served a massive fine for violating Europe's GDPR.
Shutdown pushed forward four months to April 2019 after new leak discovered.
The UK hires an AI expert to help it decide how to investigate companies that have no idea how their algorithms may have breach data protection laws.
Teams of Australia’s brightest developers turned out for the first digi.spark hackathon in Sydney this weekend as part of the New South Wales Spark Festival.
Tim Cook warns of that personal data collection has exploded into a data industrial complex.
There are frequent media, TV and radio reports on data-hacks of companies which hold your personal data. These headlines highlight there is a real threat to us as both users and consumers. Hackers see value in data, as do companies who collect the data.
Australian consumers may be protective of their private data but most still don’t understand their role in ensuring privacy by protecting their connected devices, according to new research that suggests many consumers are struggling to grasp the full extent of their security exposure.
David Braue | 17 May | Read more
"These aren’t bugs that need to be fixed, but rather insecure practices that should be stopped entirely," say Princeton privacy researchers.
Facebook may like some to a Safari privacy feature that was intended to frustrate the use of third-party cookies to track users across sites.
Whether inferred or explicit, customers expect service providers to respect their privacy – and this means protecting their personally identifiable information (PII) throughout the course of even the most complex digital transformation.