Twitter has agreed to pay USD150m to settle claims for misuse of private information between 2013 and 2019. Allegedly, Twitter used such private information collected by misrepresenting that it was gathered for reasons of security. Find more on Reuters here.
The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Google’s practices in ad tech, following launch of probe into Google and Meta’s ‘Jedi Blue’ agreement. The suspicion is that Google has broken the law by restricting competition in the digital advertising technology market. Read more in the CMA press release here.
The World Economic Forum has announced the commitment of the CEOs of a number of large multinational companies to adopt collective action on cyber resilience. The action is in response to major security breaches in the past two years that have highlighted the vulnerability of critical infrastructure. At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022,...
The press release of the Singapore Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) reads that the Singapore Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the PDPC launched A.I. Verify – the world’s first AI Governance Testing Framework and Toolkit for companies that wish to demonstrate responsible AI in an objective and verifiable manner. A.I. Verify – currently a...
Data protection, privacy and security are an increasingly integral part of organisations’ operations. As regulation gets stricter—and data and tech become more and more crucial—a network of privacy, security, and risk professionals is growing and flourishing. And it’s clearer than ever that the skills required in each of these areas are not only connected—they’re inseparable....
In a recent press release the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has once more stressed the importance of good incident response and breach disclosure as part of a reasonable information security program, which is also underlined in some of its guidelines. The FTC underlines that when security breaches do occur, timely, accurate, and actionable security...