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Data privacy examples

IBM Big Data Hub

An online retailer always gets users’ explicit consent before sharing customer data with its partners. A navigation app anonymizes activity data before analyzing it for travel trends. One cannot overstate the importance of data privacy for businesses today. The app heavily encrypts all user financial data.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

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. Data breached: 183,754,481 records. EasyPark data breach: 21.1 million data records belonging to EasyPark have been listed for sale on a hacking forum.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Surviving Stalkerware

ForAllSecure

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. Vamosi: This definition is precise and well suited for apps that record or transmit data in secret. Cherne: Consent in monitoring is where it all starts.