Zimbabwe began building a “cyber city” outside of its capital, Harare, Business Day reports. Named Zim Cyber City, the first ZWD500 million stage of development recently started with investment by Dubai-based Mulk International. Mulk estimated the entire project may require upward of a ZWD60 billion investment.
Reuters reports TikTok will expand its European data storage by opening two more data centers. TikTok General Manager for Operations in Europe Rich Waterworth said the platform is also "in talks to establish a third data centre in Europe to further complement our planned operations in Ireland." He said migration of user data will begin this year and continue into 2024.Full Story
The Netherlands' data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, said it will not fine Tesla over potential violations related to their cars' built-in security cameras. The AP said Tesla changed the Sentry Mode feature to record only when enabled by the user and reduced image storage time. It also noted its investigation determined vehicle owners, not Tesla, are legally responsible for images recorded by their vehicles.
Employees of video game maker Activision had their personal data breached in a phishing attack in December 2022, but the company reportedly did not notify them until recently, TechCrunch reports. The data breach was unknown to employees until researchers with cybersecurity group vx-underground posted screenshots of stolen data and the hacker’s message on Activision’s company Slack channel.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case attempting to curtail the U.S. National Surveillance Agency's online communications surveillance program, Cyberscoop reports. Advocacy groups sought to raise the case to the highest court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the NSA's practices. The NSA's program allows for warrantless collection of online communications data as it moves through telecommunications systems.
The European Data Protection Board released its 2023-2024 Work Programme, which takes from the priorities laid out in its 2021–2022 strategy.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service still relies on facial recognition vendor ID.me to verify taxpayers’ identities despite announcing it would end the partnership with the company, CyberScoop reports.
The Wall Street Journal reports the amount of money paid to ransomware attackers decreased significantly in 2022 as companies improved cybersecurity practices. Coveware CEO and co-founder Bill Siegel said the amount ransomware victims pay their attackers is 37%, down from 85% four years ago. U.S.
Politico reports the European Commission announced its intention to propose legislation to better align national data protection authorities' EU General Data Protection Regulation enforcement approaches.
The First-Tier Tribunal overturned portions of a 2020 enforcement notice by the U.K.