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Latest news on data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory developments, data breaches and enforcement actions happening around the world.

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Tim Berners-Lee Launches New ‘Contract for the Web’ to Create a Better Internet

December 6, 2019

Contract for the Web wants to create a better internet at a time when huge corporations are failing to respect privacy, governments can no longer be counted on to provide affordable and accessible Internet, and citizens are no longer interested promoting civil discourse.

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Smart Car Source Code Leak May Compromise Customer Safety

May 29, 2020

Mercedes-Benz's source code leak for smart car components may have given software developers and hackers access to the German automaker's most lucrative intellectual assets.

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Data Protection News

Top EU Judge Says Mass Snooping Is Illegal

February 19, 2020

Advocate General (AG) of Europe’s highest court said that indiscriminate data retention by telecommunications providers is disproportionate and may breach fundamental rights and enable mass snooping.

Cyber Security News

Desorden Group Reportedly Hacks Centara Hotels & Resorts Within 10 Minutes After Recovering From the First Data Breach

November 8, 2021

Desorden group hacked Centara Hotels & Resorts again after negotiations for ransom payment collapsed and the hotel recovers part of the databases stolen in the first data breach.

Woman using voice assistant on mobile showing the vulnerabilities of voice assistants that are underlooked

Cyber Security News

Voice Assistants Have a Variety of Underlooked Vulnerabilities: Ultrasonic Commands, Cloned Voices, and Even Lasers

March 24, 2020

New type of attack on voice assistants uses ultrasonic waves to access the devices through solid surfaces that are inaudible to humans without the use of special equipment.

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Data Protection News

Data Breaches To Become More Costly in Australia as OAIC Calls for Higher Penalties in Privacy Act Draft

October 28, 2022

Privacy act draft proposes a maximum penalty of the greater of $50 million, three times the value of any benefit obtained through the misuse of information stolen in data breaches, or 30% of the company's annual domestic turnover.

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Cyber Security News

T-Mobile Data Breach: Hacker Accessed Personal Details of 37 Million Subscribers

January 27, 2023

T-Mobile has begun notifying 37 million prepaid and post subscribers whose personal information was accessed by unauthorized bad actors in an unsecured API data breach.

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Home Security Company ADT Confirms Data Breach after a Hacker Lists Stolen Database for Sale

August 16, 2024

Home security company ADT has confirmed a data breach stemming from unauthorized access to a customer database after a threat actor listed the stolen database on an online hacking forum.

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Data Privacy News

Can Mobile Carriers Be Trusted with Location Data?

June 28, 2018

Securus data scandal exposes cavalier attitude of location aggregators and mobile carriers towards location data and consumer privacy.

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Cyber Security News

More Warnings From US and UK Officials on Chinese Cyber Threat: “Epoch-Defining Challenge”

May 21, 2024

Officials from the United States and United Kingdom have issued another formal warning about the perceived Chinese cyber threat to international stability and social norms, calling the issue an "epoch-defining challenge" even as Beijing continues to deny that anything at all is happening.

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Tim Berners-Lee Launches New ‘Contract for the Web’ to Create a Better Internet

Smart Car Source Code Leak May Compromise Customer Safety

Top EU Judge Says Mass Snooping Is Illegal

Desorden Group Reportedly Hacks Centara Hotels & Resorts Within 10 Minutes After Recovering From the First Data Breach

Voice Assistants Have a Variety of Underlooked Vulnerabilities: Ultrasonic Commands, Cloned Voices, and Even Lasers

Data Breaches To Become More Costly in Australia as OAIC Calls for Higher Penalties in Privacy Act Draft

T-Mobile Data Breach: Hacker Accessed Personal Details of 37 Million Subscribers

Home Security Company ADT Confirms Data Breach after a Hacker Lists Stolen Database for Sale

Can Mobile Carriers Be Trusted with Location Data?

More Warnings From US and UK Officials on Chinese Cyber Threat: “Epoch-Defining Challenge”

Security flaw in Microsoft’s Analytics Platform Titan Exposes 17 Trillion Records

Meta Muse AI Assistant’s Zero-Day Vulnerability Could Enable Attackers to Inject Malware

New Disclosure of “Meddling” OpenAI Agents Includes Attacks on UN and US Government Websites

ShinyHunters Hacks the FBI in a Security Breach Exposing Personal Information of 38,000 People