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

Data Collection Should be Minimised, Not Maximisation. HIBP only needs an email address because that's all I'm looking for when someone appears in a data breach. Report URI needs a password as well because you need to be able to login. We don't even collect a name on either of those services because what good would it do?

Data breaches 137

Data breaches Data collection B2B Mobile 137

SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

While the first factor in most cases is a password, the second can be a one-time code sent by text/email or generated in a special app ; or it can be something far more complex, such as a hardware security key. The privacy policy has this to say about it: “Private mode: no data collection.

Accountability 140

Accountability B2B Risk Hacking 140