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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Enforcement Uber fined €10 million for GDPR breaches The Dutch data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, has fined Uber €10 million for failing to be transparent about its data retention practices and making it difficult for drivers to exercise their data privacy rights.

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Understanding Have I Been Pwned's Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity

Troy Hunt

It's also a slower hashing algorithm; still totally unsuitable for storing user passwords in an online system, but it can have a hit on the consuming service if doing huge amounts of calculations. My own email address begins with a "t", so it must be mine! And for what? It's a nonsense argument.

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