Kate Sukhanova
Kate Sukhanova is a writer who loves digital tech, mystery novels, and traveling around the world. Cyber security news is her drug of choice after coffee. Kate covers privacy, security, and law for Reclaim The Net. [email protected]
MembersYouTube and RSS: moving your channel subscriptions to an RSS reader
?Ditching Google doesn’t mean you have to lose the convenient access to your YouTube subscriptions. Add them to your RSS reader.
MembersThe RSS comeback: How RSS can save us from privacy invasion, censorship and algorithms
?The users are the ones who choose the sources of the content, not any algorithms.
BRICS countries make strides towards digital sovereignty
BRICS is an international association made up of five countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Taken together, their population forms about 42% of the world’s overall population. It’s therefore little surprise that the five countries, albeit some more intensely than others, a
Russia considers harsher fines for noncompliance with data protection laws
Last week, the Russian Parliament, the State Duma, adopted a bill in the first reading on GDPR-esque fines for violation of a personal data residency law. The fines under the new bill would amount to a max of $280,000.
Fortigate & Pulse VPNs hit by hackers
This isn’t the first time these VPNs have faced the issue of security flaws.
How the ePrivacy Regulation could impact digital marketing
It would repeal the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002 (ePrivacy Directive) and is lex specialis to the General Data Protection Regulation.
Vermont’s data brokers law aimed to bring data traders out of the shadows, but it’s not without limitations
The data law has several pitfalls that other state legislators will be able to learn from.
PwC will have to work to rebuild trust after shock GDPR fine
Ironically, the company had previously been helping many of its clients navigate the GDPR.
The cost of “free” – Google doesn’t need your dollars when it has your personal data
“Free” services like Gmail come with a hidden cost.
The New York Privacy Act goes beyond GDPR and introduces idea of “data fiduciary”
The proposed law is stricter than both European privacy laws and California’s proposed law.
Tinder is storing private user communications for the Russian government
Tinder has complied with the request of the Russian government in order to continue operating in Russia.
GDPR one year later – the good, the bad, and the confusing
It’s been a year since GDPR launched. Here’s what happened.