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Whose Data is it anyways?

Whose Data is it anyways? YouTube faces complaints demanding FTC probe over kids’ data. Yesterday, a coalition of 20 child advocacy, privacy and consumer groups filed a complaint asking the US Federal Trade Commission to investigate the Google-owned video site for alleged violations of children’s online privacy laws. The groups -Common Sense Media, the Centre …

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GDPR are you ready?

The EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) comes into force on 25 May 2018 – Many organisations are still scrambling around trying to get their ducks in a row. GDPR will not only apply to companies based in the EU, but also to any organisation that handles data pertaining to EU-based customers or businesses. Non-compliance …

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Ransomware Virus shut down by 22 year old hero

In less than 24 hours ransomware “Wannacry” infected thousands of computers and it is considered the biggest ransomware virus in history. As commented in Telegraph “Researchers with security software maker Avast said they had observed 57,000 infections in 99 countries with Russia, Ukraine and Taiwan the top targets. Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at the …

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