Privacy

Digital app developers, Amazon and One Medical are "on notice," as the FTC intends to use its enforcement authority to protect against consumer data privacy violations.

House committee set to vote Tuesday on bill to ban TikTok from all U.S. devices as OMB memo orders the Chinese-owned app to be removed from government devices and systems.

Stanford University has announced having graduate applications to its Economics Department for the 2022-23 academic year compromised by a data breach, according to BleepingComputer.

GoodRx is required to send consumers breach notices over the alleged egregious privacy practices that enabled consumer data to be shared with third parties without user consent.

Mozilla researchers reported that almost 80% of Google Play Store apps have not been accurately reporting user data management as shown by the significant disparities between the apps' data privacy policies and Google's forms seeking data collection information, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Reuters reports that nearly 2,000 current and former students at the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is the second-largest school district in the U.S., had their assessment records leaked on the dark web after being impacted by a Vice Society ransomware attack last September.

Companies need to take note of data privacy, or risk severe reputational damage during the next breach.

Video game developer Activision has been impacted by a data breach in December following the compromise of its internal systems via an SMS phishing attack, according to BleepingComputer.