Hot story of the week: California lawmaker, California Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal, introduced the “Right to Know Act 2013,” which would give citizens the right to see all the personal data companies have on them and with whom they’re sharing.“Privacy and data ownership is a hot-button issue within the tech community,” said VentureBeat. “Companies ranging [...]
One in 10 children will become victim to child identity theft and the thieves can go unnoticed for years as children’s credit reports may not be checked until they turn 18. Many times families discover the crime when the child applies for his or her first credit card, loan or apartment and are met with [...]
On Thursday, we co-hosted a live Twitter chat with the National Cyber Security Alliance campaign Stop. Think. Connect. and the FTC. This chat focused on the issues, risks and solutions associated with child identity theft. To participate in the conversation, Twitter users tagged each Tweet with hashtag, #ChatSTC.Overall, we had a great turnout and an [...]
This past week, Google announced a novel idea for the future of passwords – a ring. Hardware authentication tokens aren’t a new concept, by any means, but Google thinks it’s time to bring this idea to a broader audience. Here’s a recap of the top news stories around this topic.Geek.com said that “Google is [currently] [...]
In our recent consumer research survey, we found that a whopping 43% of parents do not know that child identity theft is a growing concern, and only 18% of parents are concerned with their child’s identity being stolen online. Meanwhile, according to ITAC’s 2012 Child Identity Fraud Report, one in 40 U.S. households with minor [...]
Austin is a-buzz with preparations for the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, and we're so excited for it to kick off! For those of you attending this year's events, here is a list of panels covering biometrics, identity, big data including healthcare, reputation management and privacy. And if you're still in search of a place to [...]
We’re adding another element to our blog – a weekly news recap of the week’s hottest industry news stories from our Tumblr page to help you stay on top of what’s happening now.This week was a hot one for privacy news as Monday was Data Privacy Day. Here are a few of our favorite privacy [...]
Recently the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published an amendment to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), an important development in protecting children's privacy online. Most notably, the FTC updated the definition of “personal information” to include IP and location information. What this means – parents now have greater control over what information can be [...]
Knowing the emerging and continuing trends of threats in cybersecurity gives us an idea of where to start improving for the new year. Cyber criminals historically have followed the trends of the majority of the cyber community. Their goal is to negatively impact as many individuals and corporations as possible. With that said, it is [...]
This week the FTC released an alarming reporton mobile apps, announcing that hundreds of popular smartphone and tablet apps aimed at children are collecting personal data and sharing without proper disclosure to parents. Of the 400 apps surveyed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store for Android, 60 percent sent the devices’ ID [...]
