A resume may not appeal to a prospective employer but it’s pure gold for a bad actor. With job search platforms selling data to third parties, job seekers need to take steps ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...