Data Protection & Privacy

Rising Use Of AI Is Stretching The CISOs Thin to a Breaking Point

  CISOs are taking on AI governance without a matching increase in resources or expertise…

Taj Mahal security to be monitored by drone

In view of the continuing terrorist threat on the 17th century Taj Mahal, Uttar Pradesh police is…

Yahoo data breach could be biggest known cyber attack; 500 million accounts hacked in 2014

Yahoo Inc has said that at least 500 million of its accounts were hacked in 2014 by what it…

IBM created Facial Recognition Software with racial profiling options for NYPD

IBM secretly used video surveillance images collected by the New York Police Department (NYPD) to develop facial recognition…

British Airways investigates credit card data breach

The personal and financial data of British Airways customers who made bookings online and on the airline's app was stolen between…

'Undetectable' plastic 3-D printed guns have been detected by TSA airport screeners

While lawmakers feud over the release of blueprints for 3-D-printed plastic guns, the Transportation Security Administration…

Australia plays down concerns over mass surveillance

Officials from the Department of Home Affairs in Australia have sought to assuage concerns that a proposed national facial…

Microsoft President advocates Facial Recognition to be regulated

Microsoft President Brad Smith is urging lawmakers to regulate facial recognition technology and to enact laws governing its…

In Irish politics, “Biometrics” becoming a dirty word

With government use of biometric technology becoming an increasingly sensitive issue in the public domain, an Irish government…

Dutch police can now access 200,000 private security cameras

The police in the Netherlands can now access footage from almost 200,000 privately-owned security cameras. In October 2016, 100,…

China wants to track citizens cars with mandatory RFID chips

The Chinese government is readying a program that will make it possible to track citizens cars using RFID chips, according to The…

Homeland Security to test Face Recognition at U.S.–Mexico Border

Beginning in August, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will begin piloting a new face recognition system at the Mexican…

India needs 3 million cyber security professionals right now

Global technology major IBM has said there is a massive shortage of cyber security professionals in the country, urging young…

Hikvision forms partnership with Brightsight security lab for cyber security

Hikvision has entered into a partnership with Brightsight, a world leading security lab, to work together in combating cyber…

3.24M records were stolen, lost or exposed in India in 2017

Gemalto has released the latest findings of the Breach Level Index, revealing that 3.24 million records were stolen, lost or…