User data privacy decisions can be easily manipulated
Data privacy is an important topic in the digitalized economy. Recent policy changes have aimed to strengthen users’ control over their own data. Yet new research from …
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How to glean user insight while respecting personal privacy
While each person has a unique personality and identity, the digital world has no patience for individuality. The web tries with its every fiber to store, analyze, and …
Do Californians use CCPA to protect their privacy?
Californians regularly opt-out of companies selling their personal information, with “Do-not-sell” being the most common CCPA right exercised, happening nearly 50% of the time …
Facebook users will be notified when their credentials are used for third-party app logins
Facebook will (finally!) explicitly tell users who use Facebook Login to log into third-party apps what information those apps are harvesting from their FB account. At the …
Organizations continue to struggle with privacy regulations
Many organizations’ privacy statements fail to meet common privacy principles outlined in GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, including the user’s right to request information, to …
Are humans ready for AI to take control of digital security?
Just over a quarter (26%) of people in EMEA would prefer their cybersecurity to be managed by AI rather than a human, an online study conducted by Palo Alto Networks and …
Apple prohibits developers from using, selling users’ Contacts
According to new rules recently published by Apple, iOS app developers must refrain from creating a database of the information gleaned from users’ Contacts and to sell …
Facebook gave user data access to Chinese mobile device makers, too
On Sunday, The New York Times revealed that Facebook has been providing mobile phone and tablet vendors access to user (and users’ friends’) data even though the …