The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights announced Excellus Health Plan will pay $5.1 million to settle alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy and Security Rules. The settlement stems from a data breach that affected mor...

WhatsApp announced it will delay the rollout of its new privacy policy following public backlash, The Wall Street Journal reports. A WhatsApp spokesman acknowledged the confusion about the changes, noting there has "been a lot of misinformation causing concern, and we want to help everyone understan...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Everalbum regarding alleged facial recognition misuse. The FTC claims the photo application developer, which shut down August 2020, used its facial recognition technology on photos without users' express consent and applied the technolo...

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is celebrating the one-year anniversary of its Privacy Framework. NIST Information Technology Lab Senior Privacy Policy Advisor Naomi Lefkovitz announced the framework now carries 40 resources, including the recently-added fifth version of the ...

The Danish data protection authority, Datatilsynet, highlighted the areas it plans to focus on in 2021. The DPA will oversee data processing by credit information agencies and supervise debt collection agencies in their duty to adhere to data subjects' access and deletion rights. The DPA will also m...