Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has reportedly expressed concerns about the potential risks posed by payment systems that enable excessive surveillance and financial censorship. In a Friday (Oct. 6) speech at the Brookings Institution, Chopra emphasized the need for stronger protections against the...
The House Financial Services Committee chairman, U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, has introduced a financial data privacy bill. The North Carolina Republican introduced the Data Privacy Act of 2023 Friday (Feb. 24), saying it modernizes the relevant laws, gives consumers more control over their personal information and allows innovation, according to...
Google users in the U.K. will no longer have access to European Union data security, instead being moved by the tech giant to American jurisdiction, according to officials, according to Reuters on Wednesday (Feb. 19). The shift is due to Britain’s exit from the EU,...
Facebook’s latest Portal has placed a bigger emphasis on privacy as the company looks to reassure users their information is safe in its hands. Launched in 2018, the original Portal featured only a small piece of plastic that clipped over the camera. The new version...
July 05, 2018
By the cultural standards of today, the technology is ancient, born amid hot jazz and bootleg booze, when memories of the slaughters of the “The Great War” — now called World War I — were still fresh enough to hurt. History, though, is often wonderfully contradictory, even contrarian, and as the internet age matures, it is […]
July 12, 2017
The average car generates gigabytes of data already — between the engine, infotainment and other computerized systems. And that is only today — before the addition of things like cameras, in-car commerce...
September 21, 2016
When it comes to personal data, consumers today are wielding more control over what information they share and with whom. But what does that mean for the matchmakers who rely...
December 20, 2024
OpenAI said Friday (Dec. 20) that it will appeal a fine imposed by an Italian authority that alleged that the company violated the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Italy’s data protection agency, the Garante, fined OpenAI 15 million euros (about $15.6 million), saying it found that the company used personal data to train ChatGPT without […]
October 06, 2023
Rohit Chopra, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has reportedly expressed concerns about the potential risks posed by payment systems that enable excessive surveillance and financial censorship. In a Friday...
February 24, 2023
The House Financial Services Committee chairman, U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, has introduced a financial data privacy bill. The North Carolina Republican introduced the Data Privacy Act of 2023 Friday (Feb. 24), saying it modernizes the...
February 20, 2020
Google users in the U.K. will no longer have access to European Union data security, instead being moved by the tech giant to American jurisdiction, according to officials, according to...