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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. The user can accept or reject each use of their data individually. The app heavily encrypts all user financial data.

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MY TAKE: Why the next web-delivered ad you encounter could invisibly infect your smartphone

The Last Watchdog

The tech titans have swelled into multi-billion dollar behemoths by myopically focusing on delivering targeted online advertising, in support of online retailing. Cybercriminals have begun escalating their efforts to bend the legitimate online advertising and retailing fulfillment ecosystem to their whims.

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How to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

IBM Big Data Hub

A data controller is any organization, group, or person that collects personal data and determines how it is used. Think: an online retailer that stores customers’ email addresses to send order updates. A data processor is any organization or group that conducts data processing activities.

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Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention. But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect.

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Safely adopting technology in the hospitality industry

IT Governance

These ensure that data can flow easily between systems while also offering a more flexible approach to forward planning that can be adapted to suit evolving requirements. They also offer other compelling benefits, such as unlimited data storage, encryption, technical support and reduced demand for internal hardware. .

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Big Yellow and Avira weren’t the only established brands cashing in on crypto hype as a way to appeal to a broader audience: The venerable electronics retailer RadioShack wasted no time in announcing plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. ” SEPTEMBER.

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IoT Devices a Huge Risk to Enterprises

eSecurity Planet

That said, it was devices like 3D printers, data collection terminals and geolocation trackers in such segments as manufacturing and retail that generated 59 percent of the transactions from IoT devices. Enterprises accounted for 28 percent, followed by healthcare devices at 8 percent. ” Two Malware Groups Lead Attacks.

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