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India's three main surveillance projects NATGRID, CMS and NETRA have been directed to stop collecting data citing breach of privacy
The Delhi High Court has issued a notice today asking India’s central government to stop collecting…
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OnePlus mishap exposes hundreds of customer emails
Instead of putting email IDs of customers in the "BCC" field, the company ended up copy-pasting …
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Law enforcement agencies are using a legal loophole to buy up personal data exposed by hackers
SpyCloud considers breach data public, and said selling it to law enforcement helps those agencies …
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Clubhouse users should assume they're being recorded, a data-privacy expert said, following a breach that sent conversations to another website
Over the weekend, Clubhouse was breached by an unknown user who streamed audio feeds to an external…
Grace Dean,Grace Kay
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TikTok breaches users' rights and fails to protect children from hidden advertising, according to a consumer group's complaint to the EU
TikTok breaches consumer rights by misleading people about how it processes personal data, the BEUC…
Chris Stokel-Walker
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Here’s why Wipro’s employees are manually scanning your Facebook posts
Facebook is tagging and bagging millions of posts and status updates — and it’s using humans to do …
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French regulator fines Apple $8.5 million over App Store ad targeting breach
France's data protection regulator has fined Apple $8.5 million for not seeking users' prior consen…
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Three fourths of human population will be covered by data regulations
“By year-end 2024, Gartner predicts that 75% of the world’s population will have its data cover…
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Aarogya Setu denies privacy breach, contradicts ethical hacker’s claims
The first claim by Alderson was that the Aarogya Setu app is fetching the user’s locatio…
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The Small Business Administration just told thousands of businesses applying for disaster loans that their personal information was mistakenly leaked
A bug in the SBA's site was mistakenly showing applicants' personal information to other applicants…
Aaron Holmes
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ChatGPT banned by regulator in Italy, which says there's no legal basis for using personal data to train the chatbot following data breach
ChatGPT's temporary ban comes after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman apologized for a bug that saw users able …
Pete Syme
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Facebook data breach continues more than a year after Cambridge Analytica
Data from Facebook continues to leak more than year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The soci…
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A security breach of Fitness app Strava allowed unidentified operatives to spy on Israeli military's movements, report says
One user of Strava's fitness app who went for a run on a secret Israeli base could be tracked movin…
Joshua Zitser
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Meta got fined $400 million for failing to protect kids' privacy on Instagram
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has doled out a total of $686 million in fines to Meta over th…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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If any of your private TikTok videos inexplicably went public — it could be because you downloaded the app using an SMS
"Data is pervasive but data breaches are becoming an epidemic, and our latest research shows tha…
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Establishing consumer trust and privacy for a mutually beneficial ecosystem between brands and consumers
Ashish Sinha, Managing Director, APAC & MEA – Epsilon on Data Privacy and consumer concerns
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Twitter is ‘sorry’ that it shared your data and tracked you without permission for over a year
Even if you have gone to the trouble of telling Twitter not to share your data with advertisers, it…
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The FBI is warning that House lawmakers and hundreds of their staff had their personal information stolen due to a data breach at an online health insurance marketplace
Thousands of people's personal information may have been exposed due to a data breach at DC Health …
Lloyd Lee
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A federal judge accused Facebook of 'gaslighting' users impacted by data breaches and fined the site and its lawyers nearly $1 million
Facebook was sanctioned as part of a class action suit against the site for sharing user data with …
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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H&M has been fined $41 million for violating its workers' privacy. The company's service center in Germany recorded private information about 'several hundred employees,' an investigation found.
This is the second-largest fine levied against a single company under new data protection laws the …