Tag: Data Privacy
ICO Fines Contact Tracing Service Tested.me for Misusing User Data
The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined a contact tracing service provider Tested.me for misusing users’ personal data. In an official notice, the...
Data Protection Sustainability: A Self-compensating System
How substantial is cybersecurity compliance to engendering reliability in data protection processes? While we may defer answering this question, the importance placed on cybersecurity...
Integrating Ethics with Technology
Tech is not above us. It should be governed by all of us, by our democratic institutions. It should play by the rules of...
Why Businesses are Investing in Data Privacy
Stories about data leaks from social media sites surface with alarming regularity these days. And it’s not just social media. Stock exchanges, credit card...
Empowering Marginalized Voices in a Digital World
Over a century ago, the U.S. Congress sanctioned the 19th Amendment (Amendment XIX), which prohibits the states and federal governments to discriminate and deny...
Wait! Read This Before You Post a Story on Instagram
Instagram is currently hands-down one of the most popular photo-sharing platforms in the world. With more than 1 billion users (1.16 billion as of...
Don’t use these Android VPNs. They Leak Your Credentials!
VPN applications that are meant to secure users’ privacy online are now found to be exposing their sensitive information to third parties. Security experts...
TikTok Finds Itself on the U.S. Judicial Radar; Agrees $92 Mn...
TikTok, the China-based social media company, has agreed to pay $92 million to settle multiple privacy lawsuits for violating users’ data privacy. The lawsuits...
European Commission Initiates Process to Allow Personal Data Flow to U.K.
The U.K. withdrew from the European Union on January 31, 2020. The transition period of the withdrawal lasted until December 31, 2020, and thus...
How HR and IT Teams Can Streamline to Reduce Risk and...
Businesses sink a lot of time and effort into finding the right candidate for a position. One SHRM survey, for instance, found that the average...
