A new report published by B2B research firm Clutch showed that around 60% of small businesses that keep financial information in the cloud such as credit card data still fail to comply with industry regulations. Business which violate the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard...
A recent online study by cybersecurity company Tenable showed that a vast majority of consumers still fail to take basic steps to protect their data and identities online. Of the 94% of respondents who knew of the recent string of global data breaches, around 44%...
The New York Times recently wrote that Apple may relatively be safe from the backlash against the erosion of privacy precipitated by companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon. It is said that General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will take effect in May 2018, will be...
In a roundtable discussion with the media last Tuesday, Privacy Commissioner Raymund Liboro said that Philippines has the “strictest” personal data protection law in the world. To allay fears concerning the proposed national identification (ID) system, the commissioner also revealed that the country’s laws on...
At the LGU Data Protection Officers’ (DPOs) Assembly last week, Privacy Commissioner Raymund Enriquez Liboro announced the launch of a campaign in which the National Privacy Commission (NPC) will be helping local government units (LGUs) process their compliance with the Data Privacy Act of 2012. Liboro...
Last Monday, French data protection authority CNIL threatened to penalize WhatsApp if it continues its current data sharing process with its parent company Facebook. CNIL found to WhatsApp to be in violation of French privacy law and gave the messaging app one month to comply....
Earlier this week, Amazon Web Services launched its fourth EU region in Paris which, according to the company, should make it easier for business to be compliant with France’s strict data privacy regulations. AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that the new AWS Region will be...
Last Monday, Hong Kong’s privacy chief told consumers to be wary of membership and rewards programmes, as most of these schemes may not provide them with transparency, choices and control over the use of their personal data. In a recent report, Privacy Commissioner Stephen Wong Kai-yi...
Earlier this week, Facebook announced a new feature that will alert users if a photo of them has been uploaded to the platform, even if they have not been tagged. The setting, which takes advantage of Facebook’s facial recognition technology, will also alert users if someone...
Last Tuesday, the Malwarebytes security research team warned that most Android devices will probably still have a backdoor which may send back sensitive data to servers in China. The team said that the backdoor is an unremovable app made by a Chinese developer called Adups,...