On privacy impact assessment and leaking data of millions of users
Anonymizing location data is hard. If you absolutely need to do this, better consult someone knowledgable. Privacy impact assessments should […]
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Tech giants unite to launch data security consortium
Big tech firms including Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, IBM, Intel, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Red Hat have announced they are to […]
How hackers can use stolen fingerprints
Hackers could use a stolen fingerprint to break into a fairly rudimentary security system. A more advanced system might be […]
Amazon’s Ring Is a Perfect Storm of Privacy Threats
Recent reports show that Ring has partnered with police departments across the country to hawk this new surveillance system—going so […]
Facebook is Opening Privacy Check-Up Cafes
In an attempt to convince its two billion users that it truly cares about their privacy, Facebook is opening a […]
4 Dating Apps Pinpoint Users’ Precise Locations – and Leak the Data
Grindr, Romeo, Recon and 3fun were found to expose users’ exact locations, just by knowing a user name. Four popular dating […]
DSAR test reveals huge data breach potential
A phoney data subject access request (DSAR) made by a woman’s partner to companies in the UK and the US […]
Contractors at Microsoft eavesdrop on some Skype calls
Amazon and Google have been in the headlines recently over how the tech giants’ workers eavesdrop on the audio footage […]
Data Breaches Show it’s Time to Rethink Use of Social Security Numbers
The Social Security number — created in 1936 to track Americans’ social benefits — was never meant to be a […]
New DPIA on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining
Three new DPIAs, which Privacy Company has carried out for the central Dutch government, show that Microsoft has mitigated the […]
India to approach the EU seeking ‘adequacy’ status with the GDPR
India will approach the European Union seeking ‘adequacy’ status with the General Data Protection Regulation once the country finalizes and […]
Seattle woman detained for Capital One data breach
Authorities managed to detain an individual suspected of being behind the Capital One hack, which news reports reveal as a […]