by Lyndsey Creamer | Jun 11, 2020 | Apple, Compliance, Cyber Security, Data, Facebook, GDPR, Government, Microsoft
As the GDPR turns 2, Big Tech should watch out for big sanctions Two years ago, Europe introduced the world’s toughest data privacy legislation, putting on notice the tech giants of the world who’d grown fat off your personal data. The General Data...
by Lyndsey Creamer | May 13, 2019 | Apple, Compliance, Cyber Security, Facebook, Google, internet, Microsoft
What tech giant do you trust? How Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft are doing privacy Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella at Build this week. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) There’s a common theme running through the spring season of developer conferences and tech...
by Lyndsey Creamer | Apr 25, 2019 | Compliance, Facebook
Facebook broke Canadian privacy law, according to regulators Privacy regulators in Canada have determined that Facebook broke local privacy laws by mishandling user data. On Thursday, the regulators announced that they would be taking the company to court to force it...
by Lyndsey Creamer | Mar 25, 2019 | Cyber Security, Data, Facebook
What we can learn from Facebook's password management By Mike Fiorito, VP of Business Development at MDS Recently, Facebook acknowledged a bug in its password management systems. This internal bug caused hundreds of millions of Facebook and Instagram user passwords to...
by Lyndsey Creamer | Mar 22, 2019 | Cyber Security, Facebook
Facebook stored hundreds of millions of passwords in plain text Facebook stored passwords for hundreds of millions of users in plain text, exposing them for years to anyone who had internal access to the files, according to Krebs on Security. User passwords are...
