In 2023, at least five new “rights-based” data privacy laws will become enforceable in the United States at the state level, including the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Common to all of these laws are information security requirements, including the need for risk assessments and the need for authenticating data access requests. In this podc...
U.S. law enforcement agencies have been urged by House Homeland Security Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., to provide more information regarding private data set purchases following testimony during a House Judiciary hearing last month that detailed the frequent usage of private databases in their investigations, reports CyberScoop.
The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, reports that telecommunications firm AT&T has refuted claims that it had any connection to a database of stolen information uncovered by cybersecurity firm Hold Security.
Following reports accusing Facebook of scraping health data with its Pixel tracking tool, Novant Health is informing 1.3 million patients of an “unintended” disclosure caused by a misconfigured pixel.
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The Federal Trade Commission narrowly voted to explore new regulations on commercial data surveillance, saying the growing practice raises the risk of data breaches, manipulation of consumers and other harmful practices.
Twitter has affirmed that it has been breached as a result of the exploitation of a security vulnerability that has enabled the matching of phone numbers or email accounts with any Twitter account, indicating a significant privacy risk to users around the world, according to CyberScoop.
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