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The UK and Australian Governments Are Now Monitoring Their Gov Domains on Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And this is precisely why I'm writing this piece - to talk about how I'm assisting the UK and Australian governments with access to data about their own domains. Amongst those verified domain searches are government departments and they too are enormously varied; local councils, legal and health services, telecoms and infrastructure etc.

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FTC Releases Report on Facial Recognition Technology

Hunton Privacy

The report, which was developed after a workshop on facial recognition technology and subsequent public comments requested by the FTC, sets forth several best practices for the use of facial recognition technology. In the report, the FTC illustrates through case studies how companies may implement these principles. Commissioner J.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 billion locals' data. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise? Of course it can!

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 I’ll save the history lesson for the years between then and today because there are presently 106 blog posts with the HIBP tag you can go and read if you’re interested, let me just talk briefly about where the service is at today.