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Google Chrome is the most popular browser in the world. Chrome routinely leads the pack in features for security and usability, most recently helping...
... the EU ratified the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a sweeping (and complicated ) set of guidelines that ...
Last month, 360 cyber crime experts from 95 countries gathered in Strasbourg to attend the Octopus Conference. The event sounds like something from...
... treaty on data protection that was the forerunner of the GDPR. Currently, the CoE Cybercrime Committee (TC-Y), ...
After grilling Mark Zuckerberg for ten hours this past week, the big question facing Congress is, “What’s next?” The wide-ranging hearings covered...
... implements the EU’s General Data Privacy Protections (GDPR) for their non-European users. But if Congress tries to ...
Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal...
... their hands on it despite explicit requirements under the GDPR that a company give users a “ right to know ” what ...
Yesterday’s Senate Commerce Committee hearing on consumer data privacy was a welcome improvement. The last time the Committee convened around this...
... have made plans to pull out of Europe after the watershed GDPR went into effect earlier this year is proof that ... also called for stiffer financial penalties, as under the GDPR, explaining that even a $22.5 million fine is only a few ...
In terms of technical approaches to protecting user privacy online, 2018 has certainly seen its ups and downs.
On a positive note, we added a ton of...
On a positive note, we added a ton of...
... industry failed after seven years. The advent of the GDPR promised better protection for those covered by it at ... optimistic about the future. With the advent of the GDPR this year, we think browser fingerprinting companies ... cookies, which are easy for users to block and remove. The GDPR unequivocally states that this kind of personal data ...
The Senate Commerce Committee hearing on consumer privacy this morning was exactly what we and other privacy advocates expected: a chorus of big tech...
... shouldn’t adopt standards along the lines of the EU’s GDPR or California’s CCPA. None of this was surprising . ... while the company representatives present claimed that GDPR and the CCPA imposed unreasonable burdens, they all ...
2018 may be remembered as the Year of the Facebook Scandal, and rightly so. The Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony...
... On May 25, Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) took effect . The law includes some of the most ... impact of the regulation has been a mixed bag. On paper, GDPR prohibits tracking unless the user has opted in. In ... like ICANN, made some privacy-positive improvements under GDPR, but did not take the opportunity to go far enough . And ...
The company publicly announced last week that it was shutting down its Partner Categories program to “help improve people’s privacy on Facebook.”...
... part of the company’s efforts to comply with the GDPR, the new EU data protection law going into effect in ... did mention the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which applies to all companies that process any ... will shut off in the EU on May 25, 2018—the day the GDPR goes into effect—and at the end of September for the ...
Browser fingerprinting is on a collision course with privacy regulations. For almost a decade, EFF has been raising awareness about this tracking...
... European Union, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which entered into force on May 25th, is intended to ... Europe-wide law. This leads to a key question: Will the GDPR require companies to make fingerprinting as visible to ... “personal data processing” and will be covered by the GDPR. What is browser fingerprinting and how does it work? ...
To the extent that 260-page regulations can ever be said to be “famous,” Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) certainly had its moment...
... Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) certainly had its moment in limelight in 2018. When it ... that marketed itself (presumably in compliance with the GDPR) by offering to lull its users to sleep with spoken excerpts from the law. Did the GDPR live up to the year’s hype, good or bad? As Premier ...