Poor privacy practices increase the chances of a data breach

Companies with the worst privacy practices are 80 percent more likely to experience a data breach according to a new study. Data privacy platform Osano used its evaluation framework to measure the privacy practices of the top 10,000 websites against 163 different factors to develop an Osano Privacy Score. Evaluation criteria include if a company sells, shares or licenses data to third parties or affiliates, or if a company knowingly collects data about children under the age of 13. This allows Osano to establish a clear and simple benchmark for privacy performance. Companies in the top quartile earned an average… [Continue Reading]