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Lawsuit Filed Against Google, Meta, H&R Block for Sharing Taxpayer Data

Meta, Google, and giant tax preparer H&R Block are being accused of conspiring to illegally use spyware from the tech giants to collect and share tax return information from hundreds of taxpayers ...
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What’s personal data and how do you protect it?

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Safer Internet Day 2022: 4 tips to help support the youth in our lives

We all want a safer Internet, but we often put a lot of trust and hope in technology to deliver on that promise. The Internet is really made up of people, though ...
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Breach Clarity Weekly Data Breach Report: Week of May 3

Each week Breach Clarity, recently acquired by Sontiq, compiles a list of what it considers to be notable data breaches—those that are worth highlighting because of the increased intensity of the risk ...
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Virginia Enacts New Data Privacy Law

On March 2, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Commonwealth’s first comprehensive data privacy law, the Consumer Data Protection Act, making Virginia the second state, after California, to do so. California’s ...
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Borderline Unreasonable Electronic Device Searches

It has long been the law that searches – of one’s person, places, houses and effects – without probable cause and a warrant are presumptively unreasonable. Moreover, searches of electronic devices, which ...
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Breach Clarity Data Breach Report: Week of Feb. 1

Each week Breach Clarity compiles a list of what it considers to be notable data breaches—those that are worth highlighting because of the increased intensity of the risk to personal information. The ...
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When Do You ‘Exceed’ Your Authorization to Use Computer Data?

The law is murky on what constitutes legal authorization and use of computer data In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed with the ability to know the future, and with the inability to ...
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