Privacy

Yearlong Henry Schein breach probe surges victim total five-fold

Henry Schein, a healthcare tech and product distribution business, finalized a lengthy inquiry into the devastating 2023 ransomware attack, revealing its massive scope.
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Over 52K American car wash customers exposed in data breach

Autobell, one of the largest car wash networks in the US, has succumbed to a hacker attack, exposing tens of thousands of people.
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Keeping your online communications private: don’t let your messages become the next scandal

No, it’s not just paranoid conspiracy theorists who should worry about privacy. When even billionaires like Jeff Bezos have their...
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Shift to 'open banking' gives US consumers more control over financial data

A long-awaited ‘opening banking’ rule, allowing US consumers to decide which financial institutions and services get access to their private financial data, was introduced by the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday.
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Bulk data collection on American citizens? US gov wants your opinion

The US Justice Department is seeking public input on a proposed rule designed to reign in foreign adversaries who are freely collecting Americans' private data by the boatload.
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Video recording employees at work is unnecessary, privacy watchdog says

Constantly recording employees doesn‘t really align with privacy regulations, a French data privacy watchdog has decided, slapping fines on employers utilizing the practice.
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Overdue Comcast clients beware: hackers may have your data

US telecoms giant Comcast has notified hundreds of thousands of its customers whose data may have been stolen after attackers penetrated the company’s former service provider.
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Ryanair flight booking practices catch eye of EU privacy watchdog

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), the European Union’s top data privacy regulator, launched an inquiry into Ryanair’s use of customer biometrics.
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TikTok sued by Texas for child privacy violations

The Texas Attorney General’s office has filed suit against TikTok, charging the short video app with violating Texas state law by sharing children’s sensitive personal information without parental consent.
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Anti-vehicle stalking law expands domestic abuse protections in CA

A new bill aimed at protecting domestic violence victims from tech-enabled abuse – such as being tracked using location data provided by the victim’s own vehicle – is signed into law by California’s Governor.
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Use at your own risk: how top education apps can spy on you

Coursera, Duolingo, Moodle, or Udemy – all of the top educational apps have access to your private data, Cybernews research has found.
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Why is Meta introducing Instagram teen accounts?

Instagram is placing all teens into accounts with “built-in” protections and those under 16 will need parents’ permission to change these new settings to be less strict.
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German police raid Tor-linked group in bid to uncover Tor network users

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Article 5 eV, a civil rights group helping to maintain the Tor network, has reported that German police raided the private address where the non-profit was registered.
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Malicious actors spreading lies about hacked voter information, FBI warns

Malicious actors are trying to undermine US public confidence in the security of US election infrastructure by spreading lies, falsely claiming that cyberattacks compromised voter registration databases, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have announced.
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German digital rights groups condemn government surveillance plans

Civil society in Germany is outraged by the federal government's draft law, which grants extensive powers to police to automatically monitor publicly available biometric data, such as photos. Six nonprofits, including Amnesty International, have rallied against the restriction “of the basic rights of millions.”
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“View Once” messages on WhatsApp can be accessed repeatedly, researchers warn

Users of WhatsApp, one of the world’s most popular messaging apps, may fall into a false sense of privacy when using “View Once” messages. Because it turns out that those messages are stored for two weeks, can be viewed unlimited times, and sometimes even outsiders can view them, a report by Zengo X Research Team reveals.
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Torrenting copyrighted content is illegal, yet nearly half of US adults do it

A survey found that 47% of adults in the US use torrenting websites to access content that’s either unavailable in their country or hasn’t been released yet.
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Denmark wants to ban encrypted Telegram, Signal chats

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The country’s Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, said he would “very much like” to block encrypted messaging services amidst skyrocketing gang-related crime.
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