CDP Institute

The latest iOS upgrade has an opt-in feature that warns children if they are sending or receiving an image with nudity. The “communications safety” feature will both blur or diminish an image and will alert the child by way of a banner, though it is not designed to notify parents.

They are also considering alternate technologies.

This is very good since, scarily, 4 out of 5 cars sold last year contained personal data.

A fascinating, though frightening look at how far cyber warfare has spun beyond the control of the countries, hackers and technologists who created and believed they could contain it.

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will require taxpayers to use ID.me, an online identification service to log in as of this summer, regardless of whether you have an account or are a new registrant. Krebs on Security has detailed the specifics of the proof of identity process.

The EU imposed $1.25B worth of privacy breach fines in 2021, up sevenfold from $180M the previous year. Cross-border transfers will be an area to watch in 2022.

Greece’s new “smart policing” program is alarming human rights groups. The program will allow use of facial and fingerprint scanning technology to collect and then compare data with police, immigration, and private sector data. Concerns are that this EU Commission-funded program will increase discrimination and abuse.

A lawsuit filed by state attorneys general in Texas, Indiana, Washington State, and the District of Columbia claims Google “systematically” deceived consumers about how their locations are tracked and used. In fact, consumers can’t opt out of having their location tracked – and don’t realize how knowing their location at all times is a massive source of income for Google’s digital ad business which last year alone netted the company $150 billion.

Google commits to improve enforcement of its age-based ad policy after Reuters found ads for sex toys and liquor among postings on its search engine that kids could see.

The browser automatically blocks first- and third-party trackers.

Austria’s DPA has upheld a complaint that netdoktor.at, a health-focused website which exported visitor’s data to the US by way of Google Analytics, violated GDPR’s rules on transferring data out of the EU bloc.

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), which monitors the use of data by EU institutions and agencies has directed Europol to delete data that is not tied to investigations.