Tag: personal data

July 13, 2022

App stores do whatever they can to try and prevent bogus programs making it onto the storefront. While the majority of apps on legitimate stores are likely safe, rogues do get through. To avoid the hassle of dodging safety checks, […]

May 24, 2022

Connecticut became the fifth state to pass a consumer data privacy law with the signing of SB 6, titled “An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring.” The law, which goes into effect July 1, 2023, is similar to […]

February 21, 2022

In the last few years, two definitions gave entrepreneurs and business managers headaches: security and data protection. There is no security without data protection and no data protection without security. Here’s why these two definitions should always go together.     Living […]

January 31, 2022

A regional court in the German city of Munich has ordered a website operator to pay €100 in damages for transferring a user’s personal data — i.e., IP address — to Google via the search giant’s Fonts library without the […]

November 8, 2021

CLEAR announced its collaboration with Microsoft for the rollout of Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory (AD) verifiable credentials – a digital identity solution that enables users to confirm information about themselves with organizations while limiting what is shared. As CLEAR continues […]

June 25, 2021

The Consumentenbond and a foundation called Take Back Your Privacy demanded Thursday that TikTok pay damages to 1.2 million to 1.6 million Dutch children who use the app. “The conduct of TikTok is pure exploitation,” Consumentenbond director Sandra Molenaar said […]

May 20, 2021

Security researchers from Check Point have discovered 23 Android applications that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million users due to misconfigurations of third-party cloud services. The experts pointed out that the misconfiguration also expose developer’s internal resources, […]

April 23, 2021

The language of digital attacks shares a lot with the language of disease: ‘viruses’ ‘infect’ computers, and stopping their spread can be like trying to keep down a contagious disease. The two worlds also come together when threat actors attack […]

April 22, 2021

Usually when we write about snooping and tracking on the Panda Security blog, it is to alert our readers to a new scam or technique being used by criminals to steal personal data. But it’s not just cybercriminals who collect […]

April 15, 2021

The amount of data being collected by app developers has become a hot topic in recent months. Apple recently announced plans to force developers to declare how much personal information is collected by their apps sparking a fierce debate. Virtually […]

March 29, 2021

Bluetooth is an amazingly useful wireless technology built into almost every smartphone, tablet and laptop. We can use it to transfer files, play audio wirelessly, collect health data from wearable trackers and more. But like WiFi, Bluetooth is being targeted […]

March 18, 2021

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo called out rival Google for “spying” on users after the search giant updated its flagship app to spell out the exact kinds of information it collects for personalization and marketing purposes. “After months of stalling, Google […]

March 4, 2021

Social media app Clubhouse has been on the market for less than one year and it’s already facing privacy-related court filings and fallout from a user data leak that has been exploited, in which a user recorded and shared private […]

January 25, 2021

On September 26, 2020, researchers discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch server exposing more than 323,277 Cook County court related records containing highly sensitive personal data. Cook County, Illinois, is the second most populous county in the U.S., with a population in […]

January 5, 2021

The GDPR, which requires organizations to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens, came into force in May 2018, and, based on publicly available information, it since resulted in fines totaling more than €250 million (roughly $300 million). […]

November 12, 2020

On November 3, California citizens approved the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (the CPRA), a comprehensive privacy law that amends another privacy law that went into effect in the state on January 1, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). […]

September 15, 2020

Public Health Wales (PHW) has issued an apology and referred itself to the Information Commissioner’s Office after accidentally leaving the personal data of 18,105 individuals – everybody in Wales who tested positive for Covid-19 between 27 February and 30 August […]

August 18, 2020

Cruise ship operator Carnival Corporation has reported that it has fallen victim to an unspecified ransomware attack which has accessed and encrypted a portion of one of its brand’s IT systems – and the personal data of both its customers […]

August 13, 2020

Vulnerabilities in Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant platform could allow attackers to access users’ banking data history or home addresses – simply by persuading them to click on a malicious link. Researchers with Check Point found several web application flaws on […]

July 13, 2020

Security experts at threat intelligence firm Cyble Experts have discovered the availability on the darkweb of personal details of approximately 40,000 US citizens along with their social security numbers (SSNs). The huge trove of data was discovered by the researchers […]