by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Silicon Valley’s attempt to defang California’s strong data privacy law has ground to a halt in the US Senate. California’s data privacy law, scheduled to go into effect at the end of 2019, has several provisions unpalatable to big technology companies like Facebook...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Big Tech’s headaches now range from coast to coast as Maine Governor Janet Mills signed into law a data privacy bill that is in some ways even more stringent than a similar data privacy law passed in California. A key provision in the Maine data privacy law is that...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Apple CEO Tim Cook did not pull any punches as he castigated his fellow tech executives for failing to own up to the chaos they created in failing to protect the personal information of their customers. Christopher Maynard filed this report in Consumer Affairs: In an...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Craig Newmark, founder of the eponymous classified ads website Craigslist, has donated $6 million to fund Digital Lab, a division of Consumer Reports which is tasked with monitoring and evaluating the data collection practices of mobile and internet-based products and...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The photos and license plate images of up to 100,000 travelers who were processed through a few specific lanes of a single U.S. border crossing have been stolen by hackers. The data breach covered a period of one and a half months, according to US Customs and Border...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The great majority of data breaches are not caused by genius hackers breaking into networks. Most data breaches happen because passwords are stolen and privileged access credentials are abused. AI-powered machine learning systems employing Privileged Access Management...