Federal Cyber Privacy Bill Calls for Fines, Prison for Executives’ Violations November 2, 2018 By David Shepardson A senior Democratic U.S. senator on Thursday unveiled draft legislation that would allow hefty fines and as much as 20-year...
FBI, Global Regulators Investigating Facebook’s Largest-Ever Data Breach October 15, 2018 By Paresh Dave and Munsif Vengattil Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the...
Google+ Breach Under Investigation in U.S., EU October 10, 2018 By Arjun Panchadar and Angela Moon At least two U.S. states and two European Union member states are investigating a breach at Alphabet Inc.’s Google that...
British Airways Says ‘Sophisicated’ Hacker Stole Data on 380,000 Customers September 10, 2018 By Paul Sandle British Airways apologized on Friday after the credit card details of hundreds of thousands of its customers were stolen over...
Insurance Data for Sale in China – Despite Strict Data Protection Laws August 23, 2018 By Engen Tham When William Zhang’s car insurance was about to expire in March, he didn’t need to look far for renewal options....
India Weighs Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill, Similar to EU’s GDPR July 31, 2018 By Saritha Rai A draft of a sweeping data privacy bill has been submitted to India’s government that, if enacted, will restrict the...
German Heirs Can Access Deceased Relatives’ Facebook Accounts: Court July 13, 2018 By Riham Alkousaa Heirs in Germany have the right to access the Facebook accounts of their deceased relatives, a court said in a...
UK Regulator Warns Insurers, Banks About Responsible Use of Customers’ Big Data July 12, 2018 By Huw Jones and Carolyn Cohn Britain’s banks and insurers must take the lead in spelling out how they will use data collected from customers or...
Facebook Faces £500,000 Fine in UK over Cambridge Analytica Data Privacy Violations July 11, 2018 By Stephanie Bodoni Facebook Inc. could be fined a symbolic 500,000 pounds ($664,000) by the U.K.’s privacy regulator after the social network giant...
World’s Largest Tech Companies May Be Violating EU’s New Data Privacy Law July 5, 2018 By Jeremy Kahn Some of the world’s largest technology companies might be breaking the European Union’s new data privacy law, according to an...