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FTC Settles Spying Case Against Rent-to-Own Retailer

Hunton Privacy

Aaron’s is a national “rent-to-own” retailer that allows consumers to rent, with an option to purchase, consumer goods including electronics. (“Aaron’s”) stemming from allegations that it knowingly assisted its franchisees in spying on consumers. maintain documents related to the settlement.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The security weakness that allowed the data to be collected was patched in January 2022.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology. Data breached: <1 billion people’s data. Known data breached Discord (via Spy.pet) Source (New) IT services USA Yes 4,186,879,104 Baidu, Inc., iSharing is used by more than 35 million users. Nguyen, Aref Azizpour and Matthew C.