In opposition to the proposed UK Online Safety Bill, Apple has issued a statement referring to encrypted messaging as being critical to privacy and online safety.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
A breach of a third party vendor used by some airlines to process pilot job applications has exposed at least 8,700 records, according to data breach disclosures made by American and Southwest Airlines. The impacted airlines have said that they have cut ties with the third party vendor.
Australia has been experiencing unusually serious problems with data breaches for nearly a year now. HWL Ebsworth, one of the country's most prominent law firms, appears to have had a huge amount of client information stolen by ALPHV/BlackCat.
One of the world's largest adtech companies is facing a €40 million GDPR fine over failure to collect proper consent for personal information processing. Criteo's targeted advertising program was also cited for transparency and right of access shortcomings.
UPS Canada has disclosed an extended data breach from February 2022 to April 2023. Attackers were able to access customer shipping information that should have been private, and are believed to have used some of it in an SMS phishing campaign.
The Clop ransomware group may well be the next in law enforcement crosshairs, as the US Department of State has authorized a $10 million bounty on information about the group under its "Reward for Justice" program.
After being informed of the planned launch of the AI chatbot in the EU, the DPC instructed Google to file a data protection impact assessment. The launch is waiting on Google to address privacy concerns.
A complaint about the company's data access request process is set to cost Spotify €5 million in fines, though it took four years of wrangling to determine that a GDPR violation took place.
Ransomware gang Cl0p posted a list of victims of its MOVEit cyber attacks. Among what it calls the 'first batch' of its targets are both federal and state government agencies, major banks and investment firms, and universities.
Motherboards from one of the world's biggest manufacturers have a firmware backdoor present that impacts systems running Windows. Gigabyte motherboards are most commonly found in high-end gaming PCs, and collectively there may be millions of tainted pieces of hardware.
