personal data
What Happens to Your Personal Data after Deleting an App
Over the last decade or so, apps have become a familiar and comfortable aspect of our everyday lives. We download them to our smartphones and tablet devices and swap them out whenever ...
VA High Court: License Plate Database Not Personal Data
Regulations related to the collection, storage and use of personal data don’t apply to the collection of license plate readings, a court has found, calling privacy regs into question As you drive ...
COVID-19 Leads to Greater Consumer Awareness of Data Security
It turns out that IT departments and business leaders aren’t the only ones concerned about the impact of COVID-19 and remote work on data security. The average American has a heightened awareness ...
Real Discovery of Personal Data Usage is the New Green
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” Bertrand Russell Remember the early part of the century when we ...
74% of Internet Users Feel They Have No Control Over the Personal Information Collected on Them
New research conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals a substantial lack of empowerment felt by consumers when it comes to their data privacy. There is also a gap between the data protection ...
E-learning Platform Exposes Personal Information of Over 1 Million North American Students
Security researchers have recently discovered a leaky database belonging to the e-learning platform One Class, a remote learning tool that provides educational assistance and study guides to millions of North American students ...
80% of Drivers Don’t Remove Personal Information Before Selling Their Car
Four in five drivers don’t remove their personal information before selling their car, a new survey from Which? reveals. Between December 2019 and February 2020, the consumer advisory group surveyed more than ...
Brazil’s Natura & Co Cosmetics Accidentally Exposes Personal Details of 192 Million Customers
Nobody gets a free pass when it comes to data breaches. Natura, one of Brazil’s largest cosmetics companies, accidentally exposed the personal identifiable information (PII) of nearly 192 million customers. The leaky ...
Data Breach at U.S. Marshals Service Exposes Personal Data of 387,000 Prisoners
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has started notifying 387,000 former and current inmates of a security breach that may have compromised their personal identifiable information. According to USMS officials, the incident occurred ...
Right of Access Under CCPA and GDPR
Global privacy regulations have given consumers a number of rights to ensure they have more control over their data. This control is important because this data can be stored by an organization ...
