Reuters reports Denmark’s government wants to increase children’s data protection standards. Changes to the current regime on children’s data would include increasing the age for individual consent to 15 or 16 and requiring companies to get parental consent for minors…
Italy’s data protection authority, the Garante, called on TikTok to explain reports of its personal data being accessed by the Communist Party of China. The Garante gave the company 15 days to produce a response to the reports and outline…
Social engineering methods, such as pretexting, are becoming more common in cyberattacks, Axios reports, citing a recent report published by Verizon. From November 2021 to October 2022, Verizon found scammers used pretext methods, such as “emails, texts or social media…
A geolocation guessing game powered by Google Maps helped make a TikTok user famous for finding obscure items in videos and publishing where they can be found, NBC News reports. The game called “GeoGuessr” shows users an image and they…
A fresh economic partnership agreed to by U.S. President Joe Biden and U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak includes enhanced collaboration on privacy and artificial intelligence. On privacy, the two sides touted improved pacts on data flows and privacy-enhancing technologies. With…
Privacy experts are warning generative artificial intelligence users not to share geolocation data with the systems, Cyberscoop reports. “There’s a whole host of reasons to be concerned about the security of location data and its implications for the privacy of…
European TikTok officials were pressed by French senators over the company’s ties to the Chinese government and data protection practices, Euractiv reports. Senators raised questions to TikTok’s public affairs director in France regarding the ownership structure of TikTok in France.…
European Parliament has the proposed Artificial Intelligence Act on its 12-15 June plenary agenda. Members will debate the proposal Tuesday and vote on a final position Wednesday. Parliament describes the proposal as “a risk-based approach” that establishes “obligations for providers…