by CDO Review Staff | May 24, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
With all the variables at play when you employ third party service providers to handle your data, you will need qualified lawyers who are familiar with technology and data security to help you minimize your risks and limit your liability. Tom Kulik filed this report...
by CDO Review Staff | May 22, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The personal data of about 250 public users of the online developer community Stack Overflow may have been compromised after a hacker gained access to production tier systems. The attacks may have started as early as May 5 but weren’t detected until over a week later....
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Canada’s fourth-largest telco Freedom Mobile has suffered a major data breach but the full extent of the attack is not yet known. Freedom Mobile claims that only about 15,000 users were affected but researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar from vpnMentor said they were...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, Data Privacy & Security
A new study suggests that many American companies haven’t absorbed the lessons taught by their botched compliance with the EU’s GDPR last year. Procrastination and the lack of a unified and clear strategy to deal with the issues of data privacy over multiple systems...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, Data Privacy & Security
Members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked Congress to add teeth to the FTC enforcement powers so that they can effectively regulate the handling of personal data by big tech companies like Facebook and Google. Cecilia Kang reported on the House Energy and...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 8, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Important personal data like names, birthdates, credit card numbers, and employment information for over 3.1 million customers were stolen from Toyota Japan’s computers in what experts traced to a cyberattack launched by a Vietnam-based hacking group. Sean Lyngaas...
