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.
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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.
Continue readingTikTok 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.
Continue readingAnother 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
Continue reading3 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
Continue readingCyber 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
Continue readingIf you don’t use a password manager, you should quit your tech job…or any job.
Just go get a password manager.
Continue readingBeware the covid scammer
As millions of families wrap up a summer of isolation, there are scammers around every corner to take advantage of
Continue readingHave 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?
Continue readingAll a-Twitter about security and data privacy
The Twitter hack may seem funny, but it exposes extremely serious vulnerabilities we all need to be concerned with.
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