Picture this: a taxi app hoards 9 million rides' worth of data for years, deletes names, calls it anonymized. Regulators? Not buying it. €160K fine says it all.
Meta just slammed the brakes on Mercor. A breach dumped AI labs' crown jewels into hacker hands— or did it?
Everyone figured GDPR would nail Big Tech's data hoarding. Wrong. Italy just dropped €11.5 million in fines on a gas supplier for old-school tricks like robocalls and ghost contracts.
Imagine your team's laptops in home offices worldwide, buzzing with customer secrets. Here's how encryption turns that vulnerability into ironclad strength.
Over 113 million health records leaked in U.S. breaches last year alone. Now D.C. wants to slam the door on sneaky data collection near clinics—EPIC's cheering, with caveats.
Two years in, GDPR's €114 million fines look puny against Google and Facebook's war chests. But 2020 brings reports, laggard nations, and court battles that could rewrite data rules overnight.
Picture this: A poll of privacy-savvy Twitter users, and still, over a third botch the 'right to be forgotten.' If they're clueless, good luck to the rest of us.
Picture this: your every move sold to Uncle Sam, no judge required. Data brokers are cashing in, and privacy's the casualty.
Everyone figured GDPR would be the big stick for data hogs. But Bounty's £400K fine under old UK law proves regulators were swinging hard even before the hammer dropped.
Picture this: your kid logs into a game, and boom — their biometrics are slurped up without a parent's nod. Privacy groups just called out the FTC for sleepwalking on age assurance.
Remember when Trump screamed 'KILL FISA'? Now he's all in on renewing its crown jewel, Section 702. But with oversight slashed and reforms dismissed as tweaks, is this just more forever surveillance?
Imagine a web of 450 companies weaving surveillance tech into Europe's borders. Access Now just mapped it all — and it's bigger than you think.