Data Privacy

The proposed Consumer Privacy Protection Act establishes penalties of C$25 million, or as much as 5% of global revenue, whichever is greater, for companies that breach privacy rules. 

The litigation follows a former Facebook employee’s high-profile testimony in Congress that the company refused to take responsibility for harming the mental health of its youngest users.

Illumina, which has a near monopoly on the genetic-sequencing market, said it has developed a software patch for the vulnerability and is working on a permanent fix.

Sandberg joined Facebook in 2008 and was key to turning it into a social media giant that generated almost $120 billion in revenue last year.

The metaverse has exciting enterprise applications, but not without a few downsides. Here are pitfalls to beware of when implementing metaverse technologies.

A “sweeping investigation” revealed that Zuckerberg contributed to lax oversight of user data and the creation of misleading privacy agreements that resulted in the massive Cambridge Analytica breach.

Machine learning models are only as good as the datasets they are built on. Here’s how synthetic data can help build robust and reliable models.

A new report from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties says Google transmits the location data and browsing habits of Americans and Europeans more than 70 billion times daily, across both regions. 

Encryption has become a standard data security measure, especially for companies that handle sensitive data. Learn what encryption is, how it works, and how it used.