For the next 20 years - or until Mark Zuckerberg turns 48 and Larry Page is nearly 60 - Facebook, Google and MySpace must open their doors to auditors looking for privacy missteps. What kind of data ...

The sites, apps, and services we use every day are getting more and more data-hungry – just take a look at LinkedIn, for example, which was recently found quietly training AI with user information.

Commentary: I’d take an audited VPN over an unaudited one, but let’s talk about what audits actually “prove.” Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on virtual private networks. He's ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is meeting the minimum requirements for auditing health organizations’ data privacy practices, but a recent report shows there’s more work to be done ...

Big Tech quietly signed you up to train their AI. Use this privacy guide from The Current to turn off the hidden data ...

Surfshark has had its no-logs policy verified by Deloitte for the second time The independent verification, from a Big Four auditing firm, corroborates Surfshark’s no-logging claims Existing Surfshark ...

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...

Federal regulators are beginning to force companies to conduct independent audits as part of settlements in cases involving alleged privacy and security violations, and it’s prompting firms to ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 22, 2023 -- LOKKER, provider of online data privacy and compliance solutions for enterprises, today announced the availability of the new ...

Advocacy group Personalization Consortium issued privacy principles for the personalization industry that it claimed will be enforced within the organization through independent third-party privacy ...

Android/iOS: You don't need a PhD to understand Facebook or Google's privacy settings, but it couldn't hurt. However, if you'd like to skip the eight year program to ...