Laws and regulations

French court indicted Nexa Technologies for complicity in acts of torture

Nexa Technologies was indicted for complicity in acts of torture, the French firm is accused of having sold surveillance equipment…

4 years ago

Italy’s Antitrust Agency fines Apple and Google for aggressive practices of data acquisition

Italy's antitrust regulator, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has fined Apple and Google €10 million each their…

4 years ago

Apple sues NSO Group for abusing state-sponsored Pegasus spyware

Apple has filed suit to ban the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group and parent company Q Cyber Technologies from using…

4 years ago

U.S. banking regulators order banks to notify cybersecurity incidents in 36 hours

U.S. banking regulators have approved a new rule that orders banks to notify federal regulators of significant cybersecurity incidents within 36…

4 years ago

US DoS offers a reward of up to $10M for leaders of REvil ransomware gang

The U.S. government offers up to $10 million for identifying or locating leaders in the REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware operation The Department…

4 years ago

NSO Group, Positive Technologies and other firms sanctioned by the US government

The U.S. sanctioned four companies for the development of surveillance malware or the sale of hacking tools used by nation-state…

4 years ago

US Bureau of Industry and Security bans export of hacking tools to authoritarian regimes

The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) would ban U.S. firms from selling hacking tools to authoritarian regimes.…

4 years ago

The Biden administration plans to target exchanges supporting ransomware operations with sanctions

US Government is expected to issue sanctions against crypto exchanges, wallets, and traders used by ransomware operations to cash out…

4 years ago

WhatsApp fined €225M over GDPR issues

The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined WhatsApp €225 million over data sharing transparency for European Union users' data with Facebook. The…

4 years ago

Hamburg’s data protection agency (DPA) states that using Zoom violates GDPR

The German state's data protection agency (DPA) warns that the use of the videoconferencing platform Zoom violates the European Union's…

4 years ago

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