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UK Council websites are letting citizens be profiled for ads, study shows
On the same day that a data ethics advisor to the UK government has urged action to regulate online targeting a…
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Adtech told to keep calm and fix its ‘lawfulness’ problem
Six months after warning that the real-time bidding (RTB) component of programmatic online advertising is wildly out of control —…
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Passbase grabs $3.6M to power privacy-preserving online ID checks
Digital identity startup Passbase has closed a $3.6 million seed round, led by Cowboy Ventures and Eniac Ventures, with participation from…
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Europe’s top data protection regulator, Giovanni Buttarelli, has died
Europe’s data protection supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli, has died. His passing yesterday, aged 62, was announced by his office today —…
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Singapore says personal details of 14,200 HIV patients were posted online
For the second time inside a year, private health information belonging to people in Singapore has been compromised. Following a…
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Youth-run agency AIESEC exposed over 4 million intern applications
AIESEC, a non-profit that bills itself as the “world’s largest youth-run organization,” exposed more than four million intern applications with…
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AI-powered cybersecurity — or how to avoid becoming the next shocking data breach (VB Live)
“Identity is back on the front page, as people are starting to understand that stolen identity is the number one…
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Vision Direct reveals breach that skimmed customer credit cards
European online contact lens supplier Vision Direct has revealed a data breach which compromised full credit card details for a…
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Apple’s Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has joined the chorus of voices warning that data itself is being weaponized again people and…
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