Meta’s $1.4B settlement in Texas biometric data privacy lawsuit approved
Meta has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the state of Texas to settle the lawsuit against it for using…
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Login.gov deployment at US tax agency still on rocky ground
For more than a year between December 2022 and March 2023, the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of more than 57,000…
Australia’s digital ID must put cybersecurity first, says Law Council
Australia’s upcoming national digital ID must represent the “gold standard” when it comes to privacy and cybersecurity, the Law Council…
IT systems for US security clearances at risk, GAO says
As the four-year-old U.S. Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) continues to build out the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS)…
Eswatini urged to digitize national ID system with regard for privacy, security risks
Activating the digital dimension of the Eswatini national identification system will bring along important socio-economic benefits, but this has to…
Inrupt enters growing digital wallet market with pitch from WWW inventor
Inrupt has launched a digital wallet, which comes with a notable endorsement from an internet pioneer. A press release says…
Controversial US privacy bill rewritten again, but path still unclear
The already controversial American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA), which was originally introduced in April by U.S. Senate Commerce…
Online age verification requirements in US legislation raise thorny problems
More than a dozen bills have been introduced in the current U.S. Congress that, if enacted, would increase protections for…
NZ police struggle to delete unlawfully collected images
Three years after New Zealand law enforcement agencies were ordered to delete tens of thousands of photos of children and…
CISA, FLETC failed to protect law enforcement officers’ PII, other data
Two important arms of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failed to protect personally identifiable information (PII) and sensitive…
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