Tag: Data privacy
Google gets tough on security
April 3, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Google recently began enforcing security changes to Gmail that are designed to protect users, foil phishing attempts and reduce unwanted spam by targeting bulk email senders – a welcome development for the industry.
Security measures designed to protect vulnerable users from targeted attacks align with the priorities of industry data privacy experts.
“It's more than just the sort of bad actors that might be attempting to use that,”...
SSN data privacy webcast - data protection starts with people
March 27, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Data privacy has become a hot button issue in 2024, even more than previous years due to several very public and damaging data breaches affecting multiple industries.
Security System News’ most recent webcast looked to shed some light on the future of data security with the advent of technologies and exploits.
Titled “Data Privacy: How to keep up with AI, ChatGPT, biometrics & more,” the webcast featured a panel of industry...
Our lips are sealed: industry shares tips and best practices for Data Privacy Day
January 25, 2024SSN Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine – January 28, 2024, marks the 17th annual Data Privacy Day, an international event designed to raise awareness and promote privacy.
Ahead of the event, members of the security industry have come together to offer some advice on how best to ensure your organization’s data privacy without compromising its security. Genetec, a technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions offered the following as...
Pimloc partners with Marlowe Fire & Security
July 19, 2023SSN Staff
LONDON – AI video privacy and analytics company Pimloc has announced a partnership with Marlowe Fire & Security in order to provide security and data privacy across sectors.
The partnership sees Pimloc’s SaaS video redaction solution, Secure Redact, added to Marlowe’s security solutions portfolio. This allows end users to automate censoring personally identifying information (PII) captured in video surveillance.
“No matter the sector, we see more and more of...
Invasion of privacy?
September 23, 2020Ginger Hill
We live in a time when people are up in hypothetical (and sometimes real) arms about protecting their privacy. The hot topic and nearly constant debate of facial recognition … the fact that almost everyone has a smartphone with video and camera at their fingertips … video cameras placed across our cities … and while I appreciate these technologies, there is something coming that I’m not too sure about: Project Aria.
Facebook recently unveiled this, labeling it a new...
Putting the SHIELD Act and CCPA into perspective
January 29, 2020
YARMOUTH, Maine—On Jan. 1, two new statutes — the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (the SHIELD Act), a consumer privacy statute, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a cyber-breach notification statute — went into effect, changing the way some security professionals do business.“While the CCPA is regarded as the most comprehensive consumer privacy statute passed in the nation to date, the SHIELD Act is generally regarded as the nation's strictest...
The role of data privacy growing within security
November 26, 2019Paul Ragusa
YARMOUTH, Maine—They say data is the new oil, but are we really leveraging all of the data that is being produced today? In this month's News Poll we asked readers about what they are doing with their company and customers' data.Results of this month's news poll demonstrate the importance privacy plays within our lives and within security today. For example, 69 percent of respondents said that privacy plays a role, with 53 percent saying it plays a “major” role and 16 percent saying...
Discovered at DEFCON 27: automated license plate readers (ALPRs) being hoodwinked by clothing
August 14, 2019SSN Staff
It seems Joe Public is shouting “privacy here, privacy there, privacy everywhere,” as people are pushing back against certain technologies that could, or people believe could, misidentify them and track, monitor and record their actions, or be the catalyst to their personal information and identity being stolen.
It's a double-edged sword really; people want to use the technology to ensure safety and security, but at the same time, they want no interference with their privacy. It's...
The eavesdropping Alexa - is it really that much of a shock?
May 15, 2019Ginger Hill
For the past few weeks, I have been rather intrigued with IoT devices, smart homes, and security and safety of people in this context. (After all, aren't our homes supposed to be our safe haven — our place of escape from the crazy, hurried world we live in?) After perusing the internet regarding this topic, I thought I had read about almost everything imaginable, but I was thrown a curve ball by a man, Geoffrey A. Fowler, technology columnist, The Washington Post, who literally made a song...
Data privacy more important than ever before
March 20, 2019Paul Ragusa
YARMOUTH, Maine—With data privacy taking center stage both in Europe with the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and here in the U.S. as well with New York and California adopting their own strict standards, this month's poll looks at how the security industry is handling this important topic.When asked the million-dollar question — Does the U.S. need to adopt its own GDPR? — an overwhelming 71 percent of respondents said that the U.S. should follow what Europe is doing with...