Facebook has been fined €10m by Italian authorities for misleading users over its data practices such as: – Misleading users in the sign-up process about the extent to which the data they provide would be used for commercial purposes. – Emphasising only the free nature of the service, without informing users of the “profitable ends … Read more
The American company Medical Informatics Engineering (MIE) has been indicted by 12 American states for a data breach in 2015 in which nearly 4 million patient data came into criminal hands. In May 2015, malicious people were able to invade the company’s back-end systems. They managed to steal data from 3.9 million citizens there. It … Read more
Facebook and other tech companies can now be forced in Australia to help make the encrypted messages of suspects readable. That is the purpose of a bill that has been adopted in the Australian Parliament. The law applies to Facebook (WhatsApp), but also to similar messaging services such as Signal and Telegram, writes Bloomberg. Companies … Read more
Quora states that last Friday the discovery was that an unidentified malicious third-party managed to gain unauthorized access to one of its systems and stole data on approximately 100 million users—that’s almost half of its entire user base. The personal user information compromised in the breach includes: – Account information: names, email addresses, encrypted (hashed) … Read more
Wifi tracking is subject to strict privacy rules and is therefore permitted in very few cases. This is reported by the Dutch Data Protection Authority (AP) in response to questions about this subject. Wifi tracking is tracking people through their mobile devices. The signal from mobile phones is used to monitor groups of people. In … Read more