Laws and regulations

Facebook (Meta) to settle Cambridge Analytica data leak for $725M

Facebook (Meta) has agreed to pay $725 million to settle the class-action lawsuit filed in 2018 over the Cambridge Analytica…

1 year ago

Irish data protection commission fines Meta over 2021 data-scraping leak

Irish data protection commission (DPC) fined Meta for not protecting Facebook's users' data from scraping. Meta has been fined €265 million…

1 year ago

NIST published updated guidance for supply chain risks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released updated guidance for defending against supply-chain attacks. The National Institute…

2 years ago

FTC warns legal action against businesses who fail to mitigate Log4J attacks

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned legal action against companies who fail to secure their infrastructure against Log4Shell…

2 years ago

Microsoft seized 42 domains used by the China-linked APT15 cyberespionage group

Microsoft seized dozens of malicious domains used by the China-linked APT15 group to target organizations worldwide. Microsoft announced to have obtained…

2 years ago

Russian internet watchdog Roskomnadzor bans six more VPN services

Russia’s internet watchdog, ‘Roskomnadzor’, has announced the ban of other VPN products, 15 VPN services are now illegal in Russia…

2 years ago

Israel cut cyber export list, excluding totalitarian regimes

Israel's Ministry of Defense bans the sale of surveillance software and offensive hacking tools to tens of countries. Israel's Ministry…

2 years ago

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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 years ago

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