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Privacy of Printing Services

Schneier on Security

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily.

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Happy Data Privacy Day: City Planning Now Mines Everyone’s Data All the Time

Adam Levin

Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s parent company Alphabet, is the go-to story for Data Privacy Day with its new “user-friendly” tool called Replica, which allows city planners see “how, when, and where people travel in urban areas.”. The Intercept’s explainer details a troubling use of consumer data.

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation , which now possesses the documents, dubbed them the Cabinet Files.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

BianLian claims to have exfiltrated 5 TB of data, comprising millions of sensitive documents. UK Information Commissioner warns about data privacy when using AI On 6 December, the UK Information Commissioner, John Edwards, told techUK’s Digital Ethics Summit 2023 that developers must embed privacy in their products to maintain consumer trust.

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First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

Krebs on Security

NYSE:FAF ] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. He said anyone who knew the URL for a valid document at the Web site could view other documents just by modifying a single digit in the link.

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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

NYSE:FAF ] was leaking more than 800 million documents — many containing sensitive financial data — related to real estate transactions dating back 16 years. If you bought or sold a property in the last two decades or so, chances are decent that you also gave loads of personal and financial documents to First American.

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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

Experian said I had three options for a free credit report at this point: Mail a request along with identity documents, call a phone number for Experian, or upload proof of identity via the website. For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages.

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