Ex-employee denied access to his 12,000 work emails
New Zealand Privacy Commissioner decided that work emails belong to employer, though at the same time acknowledging that emails generated in […]
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Tech companies can barely keep up huge security flaws
Security experts scrambled on Friday to try to reassure computer users worldwide that a newly discovered type of security flaw […]
Why we need to stop using personally identifiable information as a form of access
Last year over 2.2 billion personal records were hacked. In 2018 expect data firms to move away from using identifiers […]
FTC settles case on connected toys
Electronic toy manufacturer VTech Electronics Limited and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission […]
Meltdown and Spectre – what should organisations be doing to protect people’s personal data?
This week Google’s Project Zero team published details of serious security flaws, Meltdown and Spectre, which affect almost every modern […]
Insurance firm and two senior figures handed record data breach fines
An insurance firm and two senior figures connected with the company have been given record fines for using private detectives […]
China’s tax blacklist shames defaulters into repaying debts
China lists the names and personal details of 8.8 million debt defaulters on a public website. Those defaulters can’t fly or […]
Digital Spying And Divorce In The Smartphone Age
Breaking up is hard to do, and spy tools are making it even harder. According to family lawyers, scorned spouses […]
Data Breach Affected More Than 240,000 Homeland Security Workers
The breach also affected non-DHS employees who communicated with the department’s inspector general. Source: Data Breach Affected More Than 240,000 […]
Privacy in 2018: Expect the unexpected
Making predictions for the year ahead is possibly as desirable as unreliable. In a world of unlimited data and advanced […]
Does Control of ‘Big Data’ Kill Competition?
The European Union’s competition chief is zeroing in on how companies use so-called big data, or enormous computer files of […]
Personal data of a billion Indians sold online for £6
The personal information of more than a billion Indians stored in the world’s largest biometric database can be bought online […]