Privacy, Encryption & Compliance

12+ hour, 34+ min ago   (555+ words) The case centres on whether an advertising intermediary can rely on an app provider’s assurances about user consent. The regulator concluded that Xandr had an independent responsibility to establish and document a lawful basis for its processing. Grindr User Data…...

6+ hour, 25+ min ago   (916+ words) Three Minutes. Now It Makes Sense. Mr Smith is at his screen, typing a comment on his friend Mikey’s Facebook page. Mikey lives in America and is building a kit car. Mr Smith is in Europe, enjoying the pictures. Nothing…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago   (620+ words) Norway’s data protection regulator has hit Microsoft’s advertising arm Xandr with a 92 million kroner ($9.6 million) fine for sharing Grindr users’ sensitive data with advertisers without a legal basis. The penalty will be the largest the agency has ever imposed on…...

11+ hour, 3+ min ago   (168+ words) The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said Monday that it is looking at requiring a mandatory one year repair or replacement warranty for refurbished phones. The agency said that it is already drafting rules to make it more affordable and protect…...

8+ hour, 41+ min ago   (388+ words) Google has been fined 890 million euros (£759 million) by the EU for breaching its laws including by giving more prominence to its own services such as shopping, hotels and sports scores in search results. The European Commission, which is the EU’s…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (403+ words) Surfshark has added post-quantum server authentication to its WireGuard implementation on iOS and macOS, building on the quantum-resistant key exchange protection it introduced earlier this year. The development builds on the provider’s January rollout of post-quantum protection for WireGuard, which…...

11+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1009+ words) Ad exchange relayed sexual orientation data to potentially thousands of firms from July 2018 to April 2020. Can an ad intermediary rely on an app's consent? The decision closes a complaint that has been open for more than six years. According to…...

11+ hour, 59+ min ago   (825+ words) However, managing certificates securely is becoming more demanding as the industry moves toward shorter certificate lifetimes. Let’s Encrypt, one of the world’s largest certificate authorities, has announced that it will reduce the default validity of newly issued certificates from 90 days…...

13+ hour, 37+ min ago   (250+ words) SamMobile Samsung sells its smartphones in India with a one-year warranty However, some people who have purchased brand-new Galaxy phones in the country have complained that when they set up their devices and check the warranty details in the Samsung…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (455+ words) Let's Encrypt will reduce TLS certificate validity from 90 to 64 days starting February 10, 2027, with a further reduction to 45 days planned for 2028. Let’s Encrypt, the free and open certificate authority widely used to secure websites with HTTPS, announced it will shorten the…...