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$10,000,000 civil penalty for disclosing personal data without consent

Data Protection Report

The claims related to the company’s sharing personal data without consumer consent and making it very difficult for consumers to cancel their subscriptions to this telehealth service. The complaint alleged that the company’s data handling practices also resulted in unauthorized disclosures of personal information.

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach).

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. Well, let’s pull back and consider how these two tech giants execute their core business model, which of course is advertising. In the beginning (OK, let’s just say before the year 2000), advertising was a pretty simple business.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. Well, let’s pull back and consider how these two tech giants execute their core business model, which of course is advertising. In the beginning (OK, let’s just say before the year 2000), advertising was a pretty simple business.

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Facebook and Google’s advertising infrastructure is one of humanity’s most marvelous creations. Well, let’s pull back and consider how these two tech giants execute their core business model, which of course is advertising. In the beginning (OK, let’s just say before the year 2000), advertising was a pretty simple business.