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AI Veeam’s $1.8B Securiti Acquisition Data Protection Giant Pivots Hard Into Securiti.AI
When a backup and disaster recovery giant pays $1.8 billion to acquire a privacy and data security platform, it’s not just another…
HHS Office for Civil Rights Settles HIPAA Case Against Cadia Healthcare for $182,000 Over Unauthorized Patient Data Disclosures
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AppLovin Under SEC Scrutiny: When Ad-Tech Innovation Collides With Platform Privacy Rules
The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into AppLovin Corporation’s data-collection practices, marking a potentially watershed moment in how regulators…
Smart Toys, Hidden Tracks: How Apitor’s Robots Spied on Kids and Got a Privacy Violation
Children’s toys are not just plain plastic happy meal give aways or board games that sit in the closet.
Gambia Personal Data Protection and Privacy Act
In Banjul Gambia the government has taken a landmark step in safeguarding digital rights by passing the Personal Data Protection and Privacy…
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Shay Legal Privacy Lawsuit for ECPA and CIPA Violations
The next wave and attorneys lining up to force privacy compliance are here with Shay Legal and their founder Daniel Shay a…
FDE Privacy Manager Now Available
Revolutionizing Enterprise Privacy Captain Compliance continues to innovate in what is often seen as a mundane and boring industry but yet we’ve…
AI Congress’s AI Evaluation Act: Pioneering Safety in the Race for Superintelligence
The bipartisan introduction of the Artificial Intelligence Risk Evaluation Act marks a crucial, if overdue, moment of congressional foresight.
DATA Saudi PDPL’s First Anniversary: Amendments, Enforcement Signals, and What’s Next
Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) reached its first enforcement anniversary on 14 Sept.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY – CPRA Flo & Google to Pay $56M Over Period-Tracking Privacy Case
Health data and shadow tracking don’t mix. Flo Health and Google have agreed to pay a combined $56 million to resolve claims…
COMPLIANCE Canadian Commissioner Dufresne’s Urgent Plea to Parliament for a Digital Age Overhaul
The line between convenience and catastrophe has never been thinner.
DATA FOIPOP Nova Scotia Privacy Law
Nova Scotia has enacted a sweeping modernization of its Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPOP) framework its first major refresh…