Facebook and Google are doing anything they can to nudge users away from data privacy, a Norwegian agency alleged in a new report.

Facebook and Google are doing anything they can to nudge users away from data privacy, a Norwegian agency alleged in a new report.

The agency doesn’t ask for explicit consent to collect the voiceprints; and, the deletion and erasure process lacks transparency.

Don’t expect tracking methods such as browser fingerprinting to disappear anytime soon, even with GDPR, warns the EFF.

Dixons Carphone said it discovered a massive cyberattack on its processing systems that targeted millions of payment cards and personal data records.

Experts say the devil is in the details when it comes to complying with the swath of new privacy and cybersecurity laws enforced by the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

An unspecified “private” server was found with the account data of users who signed up for the service, in the largest breach since Equifax last year.

WHOIS, the searchable “phonebook” of contact data for internet domains, may violate GDPR — or it may not. A lawsuit seeks to find out which it is.

GDPR may be going in effect Friday, but U.S. citizens have a ways to go before seeing similar privacy regulations from the U.S government.

A full 98 percent of US enterprises have embarked on information governance (IG) projects, dramatically up from just 10 percent last year.