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Cybercriminals are constantly finding new ways to exploit vulnerabilities and gain unauthorized access to sensitive data. One such method that has become increasingly prevalent is spoofing attacks. Spoofing involves forging the identity of a trusted entity, such as a company or individual, to deceive unsuspecting victims and trick them into sharin...
30 July 2023
Nazar Korshivskyi Legal Counsel at Solid
GDPR. I bet you may have heard this abbreviation previously. Two years in, this European data protection regulation has become well-known for its hefty fines, new obligations and a broad geographical scope not limited to the EU. But is the GDPR applied correctly? In practice to date, there are still lots of questions and pitfalls. One of the first...
23 December 2020 /payments /regulation
Banks and health insurance companies are beginning to see the value in data. As big data technology continues to advance, these industries are adopting some of these tools to gather data from their customers or potential customers. The following should help highlight how valuable data is and what it might be able to do for some of these industries....
22 October 2019
Bo Harald Chairman/Founding member, board member at Trust Infra for Real Time Economy Prgrm & MyData,
I have just started to read Shoshana Zuboff´s much-praised The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Being a founding member of the Real Time Economy program and MyData.org it will be interesting to learn how she sees the future and how much I will have to lean on my belief that GDPR-like legislation becoming global is the answer to the problems in her ...
19 July 2019 /ai
As society moves towards an even deeper reliance on social media, the distinction between one’s private life, social media life and professional life is increasingly skewered and distorted. More and more, young people are choosing not to keep private profiles searching instead to be reachable, to become influencers or to be the next trending tweet...
26 October 2018 /ai /regulation
This month British Airways bosses are apologising to their customers for a ‘sophisticated, malicious, criminal attack’ on its website, app and ‘security systems’ which has left 380,000 customer records compromised. They’ve done all the ‘right’ things in response to the incident – they’ve apologised, they’re contacting customers and promising compe...
19 September 2018 /regulation
Healthcare Industry continues to be a lucrative market for hackers. From 2017 to 2018, a large number of personal data frauds have been reported in the U.S. that highlights the imminent danger that the industry is facing. While some attacks have financial motives, others are purely to get personal data for other illegal uses. The latest phishing
19 August 2018 /security
Stuart Lacey Founder at Trunomi
Digital marketers are struggling to get value for money from their spend. Consumers, increasingly put off by ads that interfere with their online experience, are opting in ever larger numbers for ad blocking, or exercising their new rights under GDPR to turn off marketing. So while algorithms are able to make digital marketing more and more targ...
19 June 2018 /regulation
Balazs Fejes President Europe and APAC at EPAM Systems
With the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) finally coming into effect on May 25, 2018 after years of negotiation and preparation, financial services companies are facing a major challenge that goes beyond the consequences of a breach or the right to be forgotten. These are obviously major considerations given that they have been w...
Keith Stonell Managing Director, EMEA at Guidewire
GDPR implementation is now weeks away. The impact that GDPR will have on the insurance industry has been well documented. Indeed, I’ve previously commented on it here. Some of the concerns that have been voiced look well founded; for example, a stampede of consumers flexing their muscles on data privacy. Recent research suggests that two in five
09 May 2018 /regulation
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