Schneier on Security

JANUARY 31, 2024

In October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a set of rules that if implemented would transform how financial institutions handle personal data about their customers. This would change the economics of consumer finance and the illicit data economy that exists today.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

In good news for organisations handling personal information, China’s Personal Information Protection Law (“ PIPL ”) was finalised on 20 August 2021, and will come into force on 1 November 2021. Interestingly the provisions of the PIPL around data minimisation appear to be targeted at apps and big data analytics.

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Data breached: 6,935,412 individuals’ data. Data breached: 6.9

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Data scraping site taken offline after billions of Discord users’ messages offered for sale A data scraping website called Spy.pet has been taken offline after harvesting more than 4 billion messages made by almost 630 million Discord users and offering them for sale.

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Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Security 94

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 14, 2024

Putting Personal Data at Risk The results were not all positive, however. The Thales study highlighted how nearly six out of ten (57%) of global consumers were anxious that brands using generative AI would be putting their personal data at risk.

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