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Whitepages: Deleting Your Information

addresses, 2 phone numbers, spouses name, parents names and in-laws names to populate on the Whitepages profile for me. I immediately felt violated and wanted to revoke Whitepage’s consent to my information.

October 11, 2021 Data Privacy / Data Security / Rownd

The Twitch Data Breach

Last week the Amazon-owned streaming platform, Twitch, was the victim of a massive data breach. During this breach, an anonymous user posted a 128GB file to a message board which undoubtedly contained sensitive information.

September 29, 2021 Data Ownership / Data Privacy / Data Security

China’s New Data Privacy Law

On August 20th, China passed the first national data privacy statute called Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (PIPL). This new bill is largely modeled after the European Union’s GDPR. This poses a lot of new obstacles for tech companies here in the United States as PIPL focuses on data collection and transfer both inside and outside of China.

September 22, 2021 Data Privacy / Data Security / Rownd

TikTok Investigation over Child data and Transfer concerns

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, TikTok’s lead data privacy regulator in the European Union, opened two investigations into TikTok regarding the processing of children’s personal data and transfers of personal data to China.

March 13, 2021 Data Privacy / Data Security

Another One! Virginia’s New Data Privacy Law

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam recently signed into law the Consumer Data Protection Act (“CDPA”) which will take effect on January 1, 2023 – the patchwork of data laws is growing and will keep on growing

November 2, 2020 Data Ownership / Data Privacy / Data Security / Rownd

3 things you need to know about online data privacy

Big Changes are coming: (1) data privacy is not a new concern and it will not pass with time, (2) governments are responding with laws, (3) users are responding with their voices and wallets

October 27, 2020 Data Privacy / Data Security

Cyber Security is a Team Sport

Cyber Security is a team sport. And it doesn’t have to be a dull compliance ridden affair with death by

October 13, 2020 Data Security

If you don’t use a password manager, you should quit your tech job…or any job.

Just go get a password manager.

September 2, 2020 Data Security

Beware the covid scammer

As millions of families wrap up a summer of isolation, there are scammers around every corner to take advantage of

August 27, 2020 Data Ownership / Data Privacy / Data Security / Rownd

Have you been breached? (Yes, almost definetly)

Has your data been stolen? Is your name, date of birth, gender, credit card data, or e-mail floating out there in the dark web being bought and traded?