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June 14, 2021

Mumbai lawyer seeks damages from Air India for data breach

An Air India customer has sought Rs 15 lakh (about 20,000 USD) as damages from the airline over the recent data breach of nearly 4.5 million passengers, including him.

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June 14, 2021

‘Privacy Protecting’ Car Location Data Seemingly Shows Where People Live, Work, and Go

Otonomo says its vehicle location data is privacy-protecting. The data itself says otherwise.

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June 8, 2021

Keeping Foreign Spyware Out Of U.S.-Made Drones Is Harder Than You Think

U.S. regulators have discovered it’s not enough to stop government agencies from buying Chinese-made drones – Chinese-made components may also be a source of malware.

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June 7, 2021

Biden Bans Investment in Chinese Firms Linked to Surveillance

The new order, which initially lists 59 Chinese firms, substantially expands an order issued in November by President Donald J. Trump.

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June 4, 2021

Third-Party Vendor Incidents Emphasizes the Need for Better Due Diligence Processes

2020 saw a sharp spike in the number of incidents involving vendors, which amounted to over 25 percent of the total incidents handled in 2020, and the trend is continuing well into 2021.

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June 4, 2021

More safeguards in revamped EU data transfer tools, EU justice chief says

The European Commission will on Friday adopt revamped data transfer tools with more legal and privacy safeguards to allow companies to transfer Europeans’ data securely around the world.

June 2, 2021

New Amazon feature will share users’ internet connection if they don’t opt out

A new Amazon feature is set to start sharing people’s internet connections – unless they opt out within the next week.

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May 31, 2021

Citizen crime-tracking app, funded by Peter Thiel, scraps plans for on-demand police force

The company tested out giving users the ability to summon their own personal police force. Last week it pulled the plug.

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May 26, 2021

Facial recognition and biometric technology to end airport passport queues

Queueing at passport controls could become a thing of the past under plans for fully automated border checks.

May 26, 2021

Air India says February’s data breach affected 4.5 million passengers

Personal data of about 4.5 million passengers of Air India was leaked in a cyber attack on the airline’s data processor but the compromised servers were later secured, the Indian state-run carrier said in a statement.

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May 21, 2021

France embraces Google, Microsoft in quest to safeguard sensitive data

Some of France’s most sensitive state and corporate data can be safely stored using the cloud computing technology developed by Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft, if it is licensed to French companies.

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