Data Protection Data Rights Data Subjects GDPR

Did you sign a contract with Facebook for your data being purchased for 8.6 Eurocents?

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has sent a “draft decision” to the other European Data Protection Authorities on Facebook’s legal trick to bypass the GDPR. noyb has published the relevant documents today https://lnkd.in/eQBMMg7C. In the DPC’s view Facebook can simply choose to include the agreement on data processing in a “contract”, which would make the […]

Data Breaches GDPR Hack Security

How T-Mobile, with of 40 million users affected by the databreach, was hacked?

According to the CEO the bad actor leveraged their knowledge of technical systems, along with specialized tools and capabilities, to gain access to our testing environments and then used brute force attacks and other methods to make their way into other IT servers that included customer data.”Compromised information includes customer names, addresses, Social Security numbers […]

GDPR Privacy Security

Data Brokers Know Where & Who You Are!

In the USA 10 major data brokers have data on individuals’ demographic characteristics (from race to gender to income level) and political preferences and beliefs (including support for the NAACP, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the National LGBTQ Task Force), and on current US government and military personnel. Several of these firms also market: Americans’ geo-locations. […]