In its acceptable use policy, Hostgator is discouraging its customers from implementing HTTPs unless it's "necessary". In July, Google Chrome released an update that pushes a "not secure" notification into the address bar of its browser on websites that haven't implemented HTTPs.

US traffic to Facebook has decreased from 8.5 billion visits per month in 2016 to 4.7 billion per month in 2018. The social network recently announced stagnant user growth in North America for the fourth successive quarter.

Google's latest update was announced on 1st August and was rolled out by 8th August. It appears to disproportionately affect websites in "health" industries and some webmasters have claimed it's prioritizing low-quality websites.

Total interactions received by the top 20,000 brands on Facebook decreased from 29.1 billion in 2017 to 12.8 billion in 2018. The total number of posts published increased 25 percent over the same time frame.

According to a database of records compiled by archivist Joseph O'Connor, at least 1,071 US news organizations are blocking EU visitors; however, whether an organization is compliant with the GDPR may depend on whether they intend to target EU visitors or are merely accessible to them.

Hostgator, Bluehost and Hostinger all maintained uptime of 100 percent for the month of July 2018. They also maintained response times of 390ms, 502ms and 513ms respectively.

The infection chain comprises a complex network of online publishers, ad resellers, ad networks and malware distributors. The initial hack exploits an alleged vulnerability in Wordpress version 4.7.1.

The revised estimate refers to a previously reported figure estimating the number of "personal records" affected. The group's initial announcement on 13th June also revealed 5.9 million payment cards have been affected by the breach.

They want to infer consent, they want to craft new rules for their own data collection activities and they want to fine themselves less than they demand private organizations be fined. When regulators and lawmakers are this bad at implementing data protection practices, what hope does anyone else have?

Sony has followed a number of organizations in abandoning its rights to administer a newly registered suffix (.xperia). It was also recently announced that the gTLD .mcdonalds was removed from the internet's domain name space.

The bill lacks crucial rights afforded to EU citizens under the GDPR. Privacy advocates have also reacted negatively to the bill.

The number of internet users has increased 8 percent year-on-year. The number of social media users has increased 11 percent over the same time frame.

The "definition of personal data in the modern world is beginning to swallow everything," according to Professor Lilian Edwards. In a two-part interview with Indivigital she also stated that EU privacy laws may "destroy" free-to-user business models. 

In an interview with Indivigital, Professor Lilian Edwards also stated free-to-user business models are "contributory to destroying privacy and creating profiling and discrimination". She also accused Facebook and Google of "playing games" by claiming they are only "data processors" under the new regulations.

On average, organizations based in India, the United States and countries in the Middle East suffered the largest data breaches. "Malicious or criminal attack" is the root cause of most breaches globally.

The woman's every interaction with a man she met by chance on an airplane was photographed, and published without her consent to Twitter, by two strangers who took an interest in her conversation.

Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham and David Lammy MP have both made comments in the last 24 hours about likely action being taken by the UK's data protection authority against Facebook.

The UK's data protection authority, the Information Commissioner's Officer, revealed the size of the potential fine in a call with reporters. The incident is alleged to have affected 87 million Facebook users and their friends.

The latest revision proposes deleting Article 10 (obligations and privacy responsibilities for browsers), amending Article 6 (permission to process electronic communications) and clarifying Article 8 (the processing and collection of information from a user's device).

An unauthorized user obtained administrator privileges and accessed Timehop's Cloud Computing Environment on a number of occasions between December 2017 and July 2018. Users' names, email addresses and phone numbers have been compromised in the breach.