Facial recognition provider Clearview AI is facing a joint privacy investigation by the U.K. and Australia that centers on the scraping of social media platforms for available images.
Leading U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network confirmed that the ongoing widespread disruptions is the result of a ransomware attack that was yet to be resolved.
Even seemingly innocuous “free” tools can cause data privacy problems, as a company out of Germany has found out. The company has been ordered to pay a small GDPR fine due to its use of Google Fonts.
Internal documents indicate Microsoft entirely has its hands full addressing the security vulnerabilities rated "critical" and "important" that Mythos Preview has surfaced, with additional hundreds more rated "moderate" or lower forced into a deferred maintenance status until some undetermined future date.
People of an entire country were put at risk with Ecuador data breach of 20 million user information. The breach has accelerated a data privacy law that has been under consideration for months.
Leaked document saw a Facebook engineer lament the international privacy regulations that the company is now subject to, describing them as a "tsunami." Facebook now faces some sort of user data compliance requirements in over 100 countries.
Documents leaked to Vice's Motherboard magazine indicate that, between 2018 and 2020, Google fired at least 80 employees for data misuse. At least a few involve employees accessing user accounts and manipulating or deleting the data of other employees.
A set of documents obtained by Sky News, allegedly obtained from the Iranian cyber command, details plans by Iran to do advanced real-world damage with cyber attacks. Targets include retail fuel pumps and container ships.
New EU anti-money laundering regulations currently under discussion would include a ban on privacy coins such as Dash, Monero and Zcash that add further layers of anonymity to the standard blockchain transaction.
Nearly 7,000 pages of leaked Facebook documents are out in the public. They show how the company used access to data as a reward and shut off the access when rival companies become too powerful.
