All Breaches and Vulnerabilities articles – Page 12
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Bharti Airtel blames controversial privacy policy wording on a ‘clerical error’
Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel says a clerical error led to a discrepancy in its privacy policy, which stated the company shared personal information including genetic data with third parties.
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Identifying, verifying and authenticating customers in banking
PrivSec Report looks at some of the identification and verification technologies currently being used to ensure privacy and security in an increasingly complex banking landscape while ensuring user experience remains positive.
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Half of large companies to adopt privacy-enhancing computation by 2025
Half of large organisations will implement privacy-enhancing computation for processing data in untrusted environments within five years, Gartner has predicted.
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IAB Europe warns of ‘chilling effect’ on open-source compliance solutions if GDPR breach interpretation upheld
Digital advertising association IAB Europe has hit out at a preliminary report by the Belgian Data Protection Authority finding that its ad tracking consent framework does not comply with GDPR.
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British Airways fined £20m over data breach
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined British Airways (BA) £20m for failing to protect the personal and financial details of more than 400,000 of its customers.
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Defensible Data Retention: The Holy Grail of Mitigating Data Privacy Risks
Over-retention of data is a major data privacy risk. US and international regulations specifically require that companies ensure their retention standards are up-to-date and enforced, and that all obsolete records containing regulated sensitive data are disposed of promptly.
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ICO probes Klarna after newsletter emailed to customers in error
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK is probing an incident in which payment service provider Klarna sent an email to customers who had not opted in to receive it.
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Safely Unleash the Value of Sensitive Data in the Cloud
Organizations are leveraging the Cloud to maximise the value of data, consolidating it in data lakes and committing to analytics and machine learning initiatives to convert it into actionable insights. As analysts and data scientists have started working with these tools it has become clear that to provide accurate ...
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Human error reveals personal data of 18,000 Welsh Covid-19 sufferers
Public Health Wales yesterday announced a data breach involving the personally identifiable data of 18,105 people resident in Wales who had received a positive test for Covid-19.
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UK government department seeks digital suppliers to roll out £2.25m data protection programme following New Year’s honours breach
The UK Cabinet Office is seeking digital service providers to deliver a £2.25m data protection programme, following a high-profile breach last year.
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Managing data as an asset and a risk
How to extract value, deliver on privacy and manage the complexity of data.
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The Rise of Virtual Care: How to Embed Trust in Technologies
The COVID-19 pandemic has set the stage for the importance of virtual care and has sparked a growth in its use to deliver care. In the UK, the NHS has leveraged remote consultations to help reduce the risk of infection for staff and patients.
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Leveraging the Cloud to Defeat Data Disasters
If you and your colleagues are struggling with complex data management, frustrated by time-consuming, manual backups, and burdened by costly hardware upgrades, it’s time to look for a new solution.
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Danish hotel group fined for failing to delete customers’ details
The Arp-Hansen Hotel Group in Denmark has been fined 1.1m Danish crowns (US$170,000, €148,000) and referred to the police by the country’s data protection authority (Datatilsynet) for storing information on clients longer than necessary.
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New report reveals cyber security flaws in UK universities
More than half of UK universities have reported at least one data breach to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over the last year, according to a report from managed security services provider Redscan.
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Managing the Lifecycle of Sensitive Data with the Privitar Data Privacy Platform
There was a time when data collected about individuals was limited, was spread across multiple systems and was difficult to connect. Regulations were limited or non-existent. Data privacy protections were rudimentary.
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PwC develops facial recognition tools to monitor employees
Global accounting firm PwC has developed a facial recognition tool specifically for financial institutions to monitor employees working from home.
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Security Concerns over Contact Tracing Apps
When an individual is found to be infected with the coronavirus, the race is on to find those who they have come into contact with, as these people could be carriers or even be infected. This has led to hundreds of coronavirus contact-tracing mobile applications being developed worldwide and backed by various governments and national health authorities, as well as guidelines by the EU and special protocols developed by the two major smartphone OS vendors Apple & Google. In some places, the usage of such applications has been made mandatory for people who want to gain access into public spaces.
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UK Healthcare sector remains the most at-risk sector
New findings reveal that in the US, healthcare was the most breached industry during the first quarter of 2020.