Equifax announced late yesterday that it has acquired the small business data analytics company Paynet; Paynet provides commercial credit risk...
Capital One recently suffered a data breach resulting from poor security practices that exposed 100 million credit card applications and accounts. They expect the breach to cost the company $150 million. Two years back, Equifax lost 140 million identities, again from poor security practices. At the time, I said that according to GDPR this should cost them $150 million. They have since settled for about $600 million -- though some of that seems to be in-kind services coverage like free credit monitoring (lol!). Separately, Facebook has settled for a $5 billion fine associated with the Cambridge Analytica privacy "breach".
The pandemic has helped drive a surge in Canadians using digital identity authentication platforms to get access to government programs;...
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[Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jeff Knott, assistant vice president at Equifax. Equifax is a bronze sponsor and will be...
Now more than ever it is important to bring the fintech community together. Many readers are already aware that we...
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