addresses, 2 phone numbers, spouses name, parents names and in-laws names to populate on the Whitepages profile for me. I immediately felt violated and wanted to revoke Whitepage’s consent to my information.
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Category: Data Privacy
The Twitch Data Breach
Last week the Amazon-owned streaming platform, Twitch, was the victim of a massive data breach. During this breach, an anonymous user posted a 128GB file to a message board which undoubtedly contained sensitive information.
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China’s New Data Privacy Law
On August 20th, China passed the first national data privacy statute called Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (PIPL). This new bill is largely modeled after the European Union’s GDPR. This poses a lot of new obstacles for tech companies here in the United States as PIPL focuses on data collection and transfer both inside and outside of China.
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TikTok Investigation over Child data and Transfer concerns
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, TikTok’s lead data privacy regulator in the European Union, opened two investigations into TikTok regarding the processing of children’s personal data and transfers of personal data to China.
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Data breaches: What history taught us
We’ve seen it time and time again in the headlines. Our personal information is being used as a commodity making megacorporations and hackers millions. Such an idea is defeating and discouraging, so what can we do about it?
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Data Privacy and respect is at the center of Afghan Evac Effort
The Fall of Kabul When Kabul fell to the Taliban on 15 August, it sent a shiver down my spine.
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Apple Update more Helpful or Harmful?
On August 5th, Apple announced a new feature for the upcoming iOS 15, iPad OS 15, WatchOS 8 and MacOS Monterey software updates, designed to detect images or videos of child exploitation stored on their device.
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How Close are we to a Federal Privacy Law?
With the introduction of GDPR in 2018, conversations began in the United States surrounding privacy laws. California took the first step in publishing their own law (CCPA), closely followed by Virginia and then Colorado. Taking a step back, should we put responsibility on each individual state to establish their own privacy laws or should we have a federal law that is all encompassing? Which would be less complicated for businesses to follow?
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Zoom Agrees to $85M Fine over Privacy Violations
When the world shut down and transitioned to virtual workplaces at the beginning of the pandemic, Zoom became one of the main platforms for personal and professional meetings. Zoom apparently saw this as an opportunity and gave user data to Facebook, LinkedIn and Google without the consent of users. They also allowed hackers to “Zoombomb” private meetings, going against their end-to-end encryption policy.
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Amazon Hit by $887 Million Fine over GDPR Violations
Last week, it was announced that the EU hit Amazon with an $887 million fine for violating provisions under GDPR. The Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection said Amazon’s processing of personal data did not comply with GDPR rules.
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