Data Privacy
Dutch Privacy Complaints Jump Over 75% in 2025
What happened The Dutch privacy and data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, received more than 13,500 complaints in 2025 about individuals or organizations that may not have complied with the General Data Protection ...
Conflicting Messages on Messages: Tx AG Sues Meta About WhatsApp Encryption Claims
To a cryptographer, those distinctions are elementary. To an ordinary user, they are usually invisible. When a messaging app says “your messages are encrypted,” many users hear something much stronger: “nobody else ...
Eight Years In, GDPR Changed Everything
Eight years ago, following a full-on panic, GDPR went into effect. And what has emerged in the years since is a much-needed benchmark for governance. Will the act remain relevant as AI ...
Five Years of US Privacy Breach Data Tell a Story Security Leaders Cannot Ignore
In April 2026 alone, the ShinyHunters extortion group breached ADT (5.5 million customers), Amtrak (2.1 million confirmed records), and McGraw-Hill (13.5 million student and educator accounts). All three attacks followed the same ...
Cybersecurity Lessons from the Canvas Data Breach
In this episode we discuss the recent cyber attack targeting Instructure’s widely used learning platform, Canvas, and the major late-breaking development that Instructure reached an “agreement” with the ShinyHunters cybercriminal group after ...
Erie County Puts the Kibosh on Biometric Data Collection by Retailers
Remember that face—retailers like grocery chain Wegmans are using facial recognition to identify miscreants, but legislators in Erie County New York says that’s not cool. They recently passed Biometrics Transparency and Privacy Act than ...
Data Privacy Leaks – The Drip, Drip, Drip of Exposure
Beyond the "headline breach," modern enterprises face a persistent threat: steady-state data leakage. Learn why traditional privacy definitions fail and how "authorized" data flows in workplace apps create continuous legal and operational ...
Telco Privacy Violation? Fine! No, Telco Privacy Violation, Fine. Supreme Court to Determine if FCC Can Charge Telcos for Data Breaches
The intersection of constitutional law and cybersecurity enforcement, specifically the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in regulatory data privacy cases. Central Conflict: Whether federal agencies (like the FCC, SEC, or ...
Privacy-Preserving Data Analytics: Stop Collecting What You Do Not Need
There is an almost reflexive habit in data engineering: whenever you instrument an event, you attach a user ID. It feels natural. User IDs are how you join tables, track behavior, and ...
The Dark Web Explained with John Hammond
The dark web is often misunderstood, but it plays an important role in both privacy technology and cybercrime activity. In this episode, Tom Eston speaks with cybersecurity researcher and educator John Hammond ...
