Device Authority, a London, UK-based company which specializes in identity and access management for enterprise IoT ecosystems, raised $7M in Series A funding. Ten Eleven Ventures made the investment. The company intends to use the funds to continue to grow its product offerings and to expand its North American presence. Led by CEO Darron Antill, Device […]
The Danish data protection authority has issued an injunction regarding the transfer of student data to Google through the use of Chromebooks and Google Workspace services in schools.
Jan 30, 2024NewsroomGenerative AI / Data Privacy Italy’s data protection authority (DPA) has notified ChatGPT-maker OpenAI of supposedly violating privacy laws in the region. “The available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the provisions contained in the E.U. GDPR [General Data Protection Regulation],” the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (aka the […]
France’s data protection authority fined Amazon €32 million ($34.7 million) for excessively monitoring employees in its large warehouses and for not deleting that data in a timely manner, among other alleged offenses it said violated the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The organization, the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (CNIL), cited how an […]
The housing authority in California’s San Bernardino County notified nearly 19,000 people this week that their information was compromised in a June cyberattack. The organization said names and Social Security numbers were leaked after hackers accessed an employee email account on June 19. “Upon discovery, we immediately performed a password reset for the affected account […]
Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa hacked by Iranian-backed cyber group Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa hacked by Iranian-backed cyber group 01:22 ALIQUIPPA, Pa. (KDKA) – The Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa said on Saturday that one of their booster stations had been hacked by an Iranian-backed cyber group. Matthew Mottes, the chairman of the board […]
The head of Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) warned on Monday that the exploitation of two recently disclosed Cisco vulnerabilities has resulted in “important businesses” in the country being compromised by hackers. Speaking to Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, NSM chief Sofie Nystrøm said her agency was coordinating the national response to the pair of zero-day […]
The British data privacy authority on Friday announced a preliminary enforcement notice against the American camera and social media company Snap Inc. for potentially failing to adequately assess the privacy threat posed by “My AI,” a generative AI chatbot embedded in its app. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which also helps enforce the European Union’s […]