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Carol Hancox
April 26, 8:13 PM
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Biobank operator is taking steps to improve security after biological, health and lifestyle information from its database was offered for sale on a Chinese website.
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Carol Hancox
April 18, 12:54 AM
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Danish bank revealed details of a customer data leak last year which affected thousands of customers
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Carol Hancox
April 14, 8:31 PM
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Undisclosed number of names and contact and reservation details accessed in latest cybercrime attempt
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Carol Hancox
March 26, 1:01 AM
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Between pickup artists and juvenile pranksters, the wearable device is becoming associated with pests of all kinds.
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Carol Hancox
March 4, 8:56 PM
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February 20, 3:34 AM
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February 15, 7:11 PM
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Shortly after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff Chris Nanos said that a camera affixed to her door had been disconnected, that she did not have a subscription that would have saved video and that investigators were trying to work with a tech company on the difficult forensic task of recovering any video
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Carol Hancox
February 15, 7:04 PM
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced his office reached the largest California Consumer Privacy Act settlement to date, a USD2.75 million penalty and corrective measures to Disney over claims of CCPA opt-out requirement noncompliance. IAPP News Editor Joe Duball has the details.
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Carol Hancox
February 1, 1:33 AM
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AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company’s stuffed animals.
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Carol Hancox
January 29, 5:41 AM
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Carol Hancox
January 18, 6:39 PM
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Months after major data leaks, the app where women leave Yelp-style reviews about men is relaunching with a new website. It’s not back on iOS, but the Android app has new AI features.
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Carol Hancox
October 19, 2025 4:20 AM
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See how trackers view your browser
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Carol Hancox
October 10, 2025 1:34 AM
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The Federal Court ordered that Australian Clinical Labs (ACL) pay $5.8 million in civil penalties in relation to a data breach by its Medlab Pathology business in February 2022.
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Carol Hancox
April 23, 11:07 PM
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The government said medical data of 500,000 people was affected but no personally identifiable information had been made available.
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Carol Hancox
April 18, 12:45 AM
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More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.
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Carol Hancox
March 26, 1:03 AM
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Met Police to ‘trial’ handheld facial recognition tech - London Mayor Sadiq Khan reveals in a scrutiny session with London Assembly members that the Met is set to trial a facial recognition phone app for police officers British Transport Police start using live facial recognition - British Transport Police will deploy facial recognition for six months despite calls for the government to halt its rapid expansion of the technology London Assembly member: Police should halt facial-recognition technology use - In lieu of a full-blown ban on the technology, Green London Assembly member Zoë Garbett has called for a number of new safeguards to be implemented that she feels would protect Londoners from ‘escalating’ biometric surveillance
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Carol Hancox
March 18, 2:16 AM
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Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs citing low adoption of the privacy-focused feature.
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Carol Hancox
March 4, 8:37 PM
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The Irish case is a major test for Europe’s GDPR law.
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Carol Hancox
February 18, 10:59 PM
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British Transport Police will deploy facial recognition for six months despite calls for the government to halt its rapid expansion of the technology
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Carol Hancox
February 15, 7:08 PM
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We’ve updated The Markup’s privacy tool to help you understand how sites are tracking you through TikTok and X pixels.
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Carol Hancox
February 15, 7:03 PM
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Lawyer Komal Thacker explores digital protections for children within India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act and how they compare to regulations in other areas, like the U.K. and U.S.
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Carol Hancox
January 29, 5:44 AM
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Opice Blum Partner Henrique Fabretti Moraes writes a joint regulator recommendation to social media company X to halt the generation and circulation of nonconsensual sexually explicit synthetic content may have broader impacts on the practical application of Brazil's LGPD.
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Carol Hancox
January 25, 8:20 AM
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Details of over 70 million customers of US sportswear giant Under Armour were leaked following a supposed ransomware attack by the Everest gang.
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Carol Hancox
November 14, 2025 3:10 AM
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Synnovis, the pathology lab services provider hit by a Qilin ransomware attack in 2024, is notifying its NHS partners that their patient data was compromised, following a lengthy investigation.
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Carol Hancox
October 10, 2025 1:35 AM
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The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.
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“Everyone/Public.” That means any user could find you via your information—including your mobile phone number. So the software developer who discovered the weakness, Reza Moaiandin, generated tens of thousands of mobile numbers using an algorithm and sent them to Facebook’s API tool for app developers. Facebook then sent him back tons of user profiles corresponding to the numbers he’d generated.