Privacy
General Court: “European Commission cannot simply keep text messages with Pfizer CEO secret”
The European Commission’s decision to keep text messages between its President, Ursula von der Leyen, and the CEO of Pfizer secret from the public has been annulled.
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Google settles for $1.4 billion over Texas privacy lawsuits
Google has settled several lawsuits filed by the state of Texas alleging unlawful tracking of Chrome users and collecting biometric data for $1.375 billion.
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One hacked email exposes several thousand California credit unions’ customers
Attackers breached a single employee’s email at the California-based South Bay Credit Union (SBCU), leading to thousands of customers having their details exposed.
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Banking update glitch allowed users to view each other’s accounts
Update bug in Arkansas-based Arvest Bank systems exposed customer data, allowing users to peek into accounts they do not own.
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Russia’s aviation personnel's health data leaked en masse
Millions of extremely personal records from the Rostec-owned Center of Aviation Medicine (TsAM) were leaked, exposing everything from names and phone numbers to allergies and account balances.
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Hackers target utility services, steal data of thousands
Attackers breached the electricity and water provider Starkville Utilities' defenses, getting their hands on data of over 11K individuals.
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Phishing email blunder exposed nearly 50K stockbrokers’ customers
Employees of SogoTrade, a US-based online stockbroker, clicked a malicious link, resulting in tens of thousands having their personal details being exposed to attackers.
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FTC urges Avast users to claim a cut of $16.5M settlement funds
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urges Americans who purchased Avast antivirus software between August 2014 and January 2020 to claim their part of the $16.5 million settlement.
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W3C urges Chrome, other browsers to ditch third-party cookies
The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) is calling for a web without third-party cookies. The International Standards Organization says cross-site tracking cookies are harmful and “must be removed from the web platform.”
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Mozilla launches online petition to keep encryption alive
Mozilla has launched an online petition calling on governments to protect and secure personal information and privacy by rejecting encryption backdoors.
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Warner Music reprimanded for faulty cookie banners
The Swedish regulators have reprimanded Warner Music and two other companies for implementing cookie banners incorrectly.
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Brave brings AI muscle to block annoying cookie consent pop-ups
Brave has open-sourced its Cookiecrumbler tool, an AI-powered system that automatically detects annoying cookie consent pop-ups. Developers and privacy advocates can now join the fight against changing banners.
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Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft gobbles too much user data, privacy advocates claim
French game publisher Ubisoft forces users to connect to the internet, and can’t explain why the connection is mandatory for single-player games, noyb, an influential European privacy lobby group, has said.
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Chrome will not ask users if they agree to be tracked by third-party cookies
Would you agree to be tracked by third-party cookies? Never mind, Google Chrome will not be asking this question anytime soon, as it ditches plans to introduce a standalone prompt.
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US Garmin users question the actual reason behind data collection: more reasons to revoke your insurance?
Users want to know Garmin’s next step amid mass data collection for RFK Jr’s autism study.
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Even three random word passwords fall to new cracking technique
A new technique could supercharge law enforcement’s ability to crack passwords in offline investigations.
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Fortune 500 firm's ex-employee exposes thousands of clients
Ameriprise Financial, a Fortune 500 firm and American financial sector veteran, has informed thousands of customers that an ex-employee's mistake revealed their personal details.
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X trained Grok on European user data, watchdog claims
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced it will launch an investigation into X for processing the personal data of European users to train its large language models (LLMs).
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