A Spanish company has received a GDPR fine of 9,000 Euros for posting an employee’s photo on its own company website, Facebook and Instagram without his permission. The employee asked his employer to remove the image, but he refused. The company claimed it had been granted permission, even though it could not prove it. The […]
The Austrian Data Protection Authority has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR. This is the first decision on the 101 model complaints filed by noyb in the wake of the so-called “Schrems II” decision. In 2020, the Court of Justice (CJEU) decided that the […]
Results of a National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) survey:– 42% of Brits expect to lose money to online fraud.– 23.2 million victim accounts worldwide used 123456 as password.– only 15% say they know a great deal about how to protect themselves from harmful activity.– the most regular concern is money being stolen – with 42% […]
Apple unleashing its ‘nutrition label’-style Privacy Labels, Surfshark has combed through the privacy policies of over 200 apps to find out which collect the most data and which collect the least.Key Findings are:– On average, social media apps and food delivery apps collect the most data.– Browsers and image editing apps collect the least.– The […]
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) told The Guardian in a statement that it was planning “further discussions” with Meta about the Quest 2 VR headset’s compliance with a recently established children’s code that priorities the “best interests” of young users. The watchdog wants to determine whether Meta’s headset and VR services do enough to […]
Criminals have managed to hijack 1.1 million accounts at 17 companies by means of reused passwords, says New York Attorney General Letitia James. According to James, the accounts could be taken over through credential stuffing attacks. Credential stuffing uses previously leaked email addresses and passwords to gain automated access to accounts. Attackers check whether they […]
The personal and salary data of 637,000 Albanians, about a quarter of the population, has been stolen and leaked on the internet. It concerns names, identity card and passport numbers, telephone numbers, salary, position and employer that are contained in two Excel documents that are shared via WhatsApp, according to the Albanian Exit News. The […]
An estimated 45 million Americans use encrypted password managers. Another 128 million non-users are open to trying them, with concerns about security and value as the main obstacles. Nearly one-third of Americans had their identity or online credentials stolen in the past year, with another 13 percent unsure whether they’d been hacked. Among those who […]
1.6 million WordPress sites have been targeted by an active large-scale attack campaign originating from 16,000 IP addresses by exploiting weaknesses in four plugins and 15 Epsilon Framework themes.
Twitter has updated its privacy policy so that it can remove images of people that have been posted without their consent. It would require a first-person report or a report from an authorized representative to establish whether or not the individual had consented to it being shared.