Microsoft illegally collected and retained children’s data, says FTC

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Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from children’s Xbox accounts.

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Controversial Kids’ Code aims to keep children safe online

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We take a look at a child safety bill in California which sounds useful, but is raising some concerns related to privacy and security of its own.

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The not-so-definitive guide to cybersecurity and data privacy laws

Credit to Author: davidruiz| Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:00:00 +0000

In the first blog for Malwarebytes Labs’ cybersecurity and data privacy law series, we tackle US data privacy compliance from a startup’s perspective. GDPR, COPPA, HIPAA—it’s all here.

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