Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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.

Data breaches 283

Data breaches Passwords B2B Technology 283

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. The next few parts of this series all focus on cures - how do we fix data breaches once bad code has already been written or bad server configurations deployed? Data Collection Should be Minimised, Not Maximisation.

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Data collection B2B Mobile 137

IT Security Guru

AUGUST 7, 2024

Progressive Profiling : Progressive Profiling, or the gradual collection of customer information over time, allows insurance entities to develop comprehensive profiles without overwhelming the customer with long forms, while also respecting customer privacy preferences.

Insurance 119

Insurance Data collection Authentication Technology 119

SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The privacy policy has this to say about it: “Private mode: no data collection. On the provider side: training the model on prompts and chatbot responses A major risk associated with using chatbots is leakage of personal data into the bot’s training corpus. Private mode can be enabled in the chatbot interface.

Accountability 140

Accountability B2B Risk Hacking 140