Young Consumers Willing to Let Insurers Spy on Digital Data – If It Cuts Premiums June 19, 2018 By Julie Edde The majority of people between 18 and 34 would be willing to let insurance companies dig through their digital data...
Massive Cyber Attack of UK Retailer Dixons Carphone Prompts Data Watchdog Probe June 15, 2018 By Eric Pfanner and Sam Chambers The U.K.’s data-protection watchdog said it’s investigating a cyber attack at Dixons Carphone Plc that affected almost 6 million payment...
GDPR Day 1: Privacy Activist Files Complaints Against Tech Giants Over ‘Forced Consent’ May 25, 2018 By Douglas Busvine and Lucy Fielder As Europe’s new privacy law took effect on Friday, one activist wasted no time in asserting the additional rights it...
GDPR Day 1: Wake-Up Call for Many; Media Sites Shut EU Access May 25, 2018 By Julia Fioretti New European privacy regulations went into effect on Friday that will force companies to be more attentive to how they...
GDPR Day 1: A New Era in Data Privacy Begins May 25, 2018 By Stephanie Bodoni From tech giant Facebook Inc. to libraries and schools, organizations are now subject to the world’s most far-reaching data privacy...
Microsoft to Extend EU Data Privacy Rights Globally. Facebook, Google Not Quite. May 24, 2018 By Anick Jesdanun Microsoft promised this week to give users worldwide the same data and privacy rights Europeans will get under new regulations...
How Data Privacy Laws Could Hamper Insurance Underwriting May 24, 2018 Complying with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation is leading insurers and reinsurers to dilute the types of...
Businesses, Big and Small, Come to Terms with New Data Privacy Law May 23, 2018 By Danica Kirka Lisa Meyer’s London hair salon is a cozy place where her mother serves homemade macaroons, children climb on chairs and...
EU’s Data Privacy Law Places AI Use in Insurance Under Closer Scrutiny May 22, 2018 By Silla Brush Regulators are beginning to teach robots who’s the boss. After spending billions of dollars on cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies, Europe’s...
Europe’s New Data Privacy Law Boosts Cyber Insurance Sales May 22, 2018 By Carolyn Cohn Data privacy rules coming into force this week are giving Europe’s fledgling cyber insurance market a boost as they make...