Nearly all adults (95%) think children should be protected online from certain features and materials such as pornography, gambling and online purchases, according to a Common Sense Media survey of more than 1,000 adults published Monday. Additionally, more than three in five support age verification for online games and social media, though 35% of parents are also concerned about privacy and data security involved in that.
Though technology is involved in most privacy and data-breach litigation, the real common thread between the cases is human involvement, said privacy lawyers during a webinar hosted by the Clark Hill law firm Tuesday. Therefore, the lawyers said staff training should be made a priority, instead of throwing technology at privacy issues.
Cybersecurity is about more than just prevention and data protection, with infrastructure playing an important role too, said Leonard Nuara, founding partner at Flatiron Law Group, during an event hosted by the Practising Law Institute Thursday.
Employees using third-party tools and services can create problems for an organization's privacy protocols, which is a top concern of local governments, Travis Luckey, chief information officer of the City of Beaverton, Oregon, said during an Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) webinar Tuesday.
Processes around consumer and customer data often get most of the attention of privacy professionals, yet employee data provides an equally attractive target for cybercriminals, judging by the rising number of incidents in this category, according to a post by Nelson Mullins lawyer Mike Rahmn.
The data of almost 700,000 people stored in Illinois mapping sites was exposed from Jan. 2022 until this past September, the state's Department of Human Services (IDHS) said Friday in a media notice.
Baker University suffered a data security event in December 2024 that may have impacted the security of sensitive information, the private Kansas college reported Friday. Multiple state attorneys general also reported the breach recently.
Following a data breach at a Michigan-based credit reporting company that impacted almost six million individuals across the country, the state's attorney general reminded consumers of the importance of protecting personal information.
Texas-based financial services provider Marquis Software Solutions may have suffered a breach that leaked the sensitive information of almost 800,000 customers, a law firm investigating the incident said Monday. Multiple states also recently reported the breach.
Car companies are increasingly monetizing driver data while failing to protect consumer privacy, said Robinson+Cole lawyer Kathryn Rattigan in a blog post Thursday.