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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us.

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T-Mobile data breach: CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information) exposed

Security Affairs

T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ network information (CPNI), including phone numbers and calls records. T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach exposing customers’ account’s information. ” reads the statement published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Meta subsidiaries must pay $14m over misleading data collection disclosure

Malwarebytes

Meta has run into yet another bout of court related issues—two subsidiaries have been ordered to pay $14 million regarding undisclosed data collection. Last year, Instagram received a record fine of $400m for the abuse of children’s data.

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After hackers blackmailed their clients, Finnish therapy firm declares bankruptcy

Hot for Security

Vastaamo, the Finnish psychotherapy practice that covered up a horrific security breach which resulted in patients receiving blackmail threats, has declared itself bankrupt.

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UK data watchdog wants to tackle cookie pop ups to protect personal data

CyberSecurity Insiders

Already, the cookies acceptance feature has been part of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation that came into effect in May 2018. By doing so, ICO wants to aim for a unified data protection for all web users in European Union. Note- GDPR allows web users to export their data and delete it as per their choice.

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GUEST ESSAY: A breakout of how Google, Facebook, Instagram enable third-party snooping

The Last Watchdog

billion apps in 2021 alone, up more than 47 percent since 2018. This increased demand for apps also raises the need for improved data protection measures, which Google took steps to address with the new data safety section they launched in July 2022. Greediest data harvesters. In fact, Google Play users downloaded 111.3

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Meta Fined €265M for Data Leak Involving 530M Users

SecureWorld News

The DPC discussed the inquiry : "The scope of the inquiry concerned an examination and assessment of Facebook Search, Facebook Messenger Contact Importer and Instagram Contact Importer tools in relation to processing carried out by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited ('MPIL') during the period between 25 May 2018 and September 2019.