Four US states have sued Google for illegally collecting location data. According to the attorneys general of the District of Columbia, Texas, Washington and Indiana, the tech company misled and manipulated users into accessing their location data, including making it nearly impossible to stop location tracking. According to the indictment, since at least 2014, Google […]
Italian energy company Enel Energia has been fined 26.5 million euros by the Italian privacy regulator for violating the GDPR. According to the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (GPDP), the energy company has unlawfully processed the personal data of millions of people for marketing purposes. The GPDP launched an investigation into Enel Energia […]
This week, an attack on an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) server stole the personal and confidential data of more than 515,000 “highly vulnerable” individuals, the organization said in a statement. These include people separated from their families and families due to migration, disasters and conflicts, missing persons and their families and people […]
Aldi has opened its first checkout-free store, which allows customers to complete their shopping without scanning a single product, or having to go through a checkout. To enter the ALDI supermarket in London, customers must first install the Aldi Shop&Go app and create a corresponding account. Access to the supermarket can be obtained via the […]
Several Ukrainian government websites down due to a major a cyberattack. Below is the websites reads in part: “Ukrainians!…All information about you has become public, be afraid and expect worse.” According to the New York Times, the attack also crippled the sites of the cabinet of ministers, along with the ministries of energy, sports, agriculture, […]
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 […]