Microsoft wants to introduce smartphone-style app permission prompts in Windows 11 to request user consent before apps can access sensitive resources such as files, cameras, and microphones. The ...

January 28 marks Data Privacy Day. Founded in 2007 by the Council of Europe, the aim of Data Privacy Day is to raise public awareness about the right to personal data ...

As organizations across the country adapt to an ever-changing digital environment, 2025 brought a wave of important updates in data privacy and cybersecurity at both the federal and state levels. New ...

Zach Heck is a Partner with Taft. His practice focuses on privacy and data security. Specifically, Zach assists clients in the areas of privacy compliance, defense litigation, class action defense and ...

The Trump administration has acknowledged for the first time in a court filing that members of the U.S. DOGE Service accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency ...

Your Google account is more than just an email login. It stores years of personal data, including photos, documents, location history, search behavior, and access to third-party apps, making Google ...

Data privacy teams are both understaffed and underfunded despite accelerating privacy threats and regulatory demands, according to new research by ISACA. ISACA’s ...

IT ministry cancels scheduled meeting with tech giants, sources say Internet rights group IFF says it is worried about proposal Proposal seeks to micromanage how users interact with their devices, ...

2025 saw a range of activity at the intersection of privacy, data security, and national security, including new types of threats, significant U.S. regulatory actions by multiple agencies, legislative ...

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Meta’s end-to-end encrypted messaging app is used by billions of people. Here’s how to make sure you’re one of the most locked-down ones out there. Meanwhile, in November, Austrian researchers plugged ...