Latest Privacy and Technology Breaches and Vulnerabilities – Page 6
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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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Facebook’s lead European regulator investigates Instagram’s processing of children’s data
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched two statutory inquiries into the processing of children’s data on Facebook-owned social media platform, Instagram.
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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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End-to-end encryption could pose threat to children, warns US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Japan
Certain uses of encryption technology pose challenges to public safety, including to highly vulnerable members of society such as sexually exploited children, according to a statement issued earlier this week by the United States Department of Justice and signed by six other nations.
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European privacy laws to blame for continued self-harm content, says Instagram
Content that breaks Instagram’s own rules on promoting and glamourising eating disorders and self-injury can still be found on the platform, an investigation has revealed.
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Apple delays new anti-tracking privacy feature for phones and tablets
Apple has delayed the introduction of a stricter privacy feature designed to stop apps and websites tracking people online without their consent.
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Firm announces new data privacy function for public blockchains
Secret Network has announced it is launching a new secret contract function “to bring privacy to public blockchains”
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Facial recognition technology used unlawfully by South Wales Police, court rules
A UK police force used automatic facial recognition unlawfully because it failed to adequately assess the impact on data protection, a court has ruled.
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Trump bans Chinese apps WeChat and TikTok over data collection and national security concerns
The Trump administration targeted WeChat and TikTok on Thursday by announcing executive orders banning US transactions with Chinese owners Tencent Holdings Ltd and ByteDance, Reuters has reported.
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Action is required, says member of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies
“The pace of change, the velocity of what’s happening – we need to really get far more of a grip and understand how to legislate and regulate in a world where things can go global in a fraction of a second,” says Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE, a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies.
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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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Data Privacy vs Utility Fallacy
Among the many serious challenges the COVID-19 pandemic has presented businesses and individuals alike with, a long talked about and complex discussion has also arisen once again: what is worth giving up personal privacy for?
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Zoom reveals improved security with 256-bit GCM encryption
Zoom Video Communications has revealed improved security enhancements with 256-bit GCM encryption.
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US consumers respond to Salesforce data breach
Since the adoption of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), cracking down on data breaches and promoting consumer privacy has remained a priority in the US state.
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Almost half of WhatsApp usage breaches legal terms
Almost half (41%) of UK workers admit to using WhatsApp for work purposes despite it being against WhatsApp’s legal terms of service to use it in ways that involve any non-personal use.
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Vulnerability found within Cisco Webex and Zoom
Researchers have announced the discovery of a vulnerability within the video-conferencing platforms, Cisco Webex and Zoom, allowing attacks to snoop into calls.