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How Secure Is Online Fax: Privacy and Data Protection Standards

When it comes to sharing sensitive documents online, security sits at the top of everyone’s checklist. Online faxing is…...

TikTok Slammed With €530 Million GDPR Fine for Sending E.U. Data to China

Ireland's Data Protection Commission DPC on Friday fined popular video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million $601 million for infringing data protection regulations in the region by transferring European users' data to China. "TikTok infringed the GDPR regarding its transfers of EEA European...

SOC 2 Type 2 Guide⚠️: Compliance and Certification — Part 1

SOC 2 Type 2 Guide⚠️: Compliance and Certification — Part 1 First part. Learn about SOC 2 compliance. Why it matters when choosing a SaaS provider. Protect your clients’ privacy Every day, the way we use the internet continues to evolve. And as a result, it’s now easier for people to access their...

GEICO Alerts Customers Hackers Stole Driver License Data for Two Months

Threat actors stole driver license numbers from customers of GEICO insurance for nearly two months earlier this year due to a security flaw on its website that has since been fixed. The second-largest auto insurance provider in the United States disclosed the vulnerability in a data breach notice...

On Executive Order 12333

Mark Jaycox has written a long article on the US Executive Order 12333: "No Oversight, No Limits, No Worries: A Primer on Presidential Spying and Executive Order 12,333": Abstract: Executive Order 12,333 "EO 12333" is a 1980s Executive Order signed by President Ronald Reagan that, among other...

Govt.-Backed Contact-Tracing Apps Raise Privacy Hackles

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is echoing lawmaker concerns that California is not taking privacy seriously enough, as state legislators mull launching a COVID-19 exposure-notification app based on Apple and Google’s smartphone technology. The U.S. nonprofit, which is aimed at protecting...

Privacy Goal: More Controls in Users' Hands

SAN FRANCISCO – The same companies that brought, among other things, facial recognition into your living rooms and the ability to record video to your eyewear, swear the next big thing in privacy is putting more controls in your hand. The privacy officers of Microsoft, Google and Facebook said...

HTTPS, SSL Minimal Security, Privacy Standard for Email

Yahoo is being second-guessed more today than a mediocre baseball manager. Two days after announcing it would finally turn SSL on by default for its email users starting in January, the company is getting a halfhearted pat on the back from the security industry, which can’t help but ask: “What to...

Google Privacy Director Alma Whitten Leaving

Alma Whitten, the director of privacy at Google, is stepping down from that role and leaves behind her a complicated legacy in regards to user privacy. Whitten has been the company’s top product and engineering privacy official since 2010 and was at the helm as the company navigated a number of...