Researchers at VPN advisory company vpnMentor have found yet another online data exposure caused by a misconfigured cloud database.
Tag Archives: data protection
Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency
The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen.
Pressure mounts for federal privacy law with second bill
Pressure is gathering for a federal privacy law in the US with the introduction of a second bill that would protect consumer data.
£3 billion Safari iPhone privacy lawsuit given go-ahead
A UK class action lawsuit against Google, that represents around 5 million iPhone users, can go ahead, according to the UK Court of Appeal.
LinkedIn rapped for targeting ads at 18 million Facebook users
What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users.
One month to GDPR. Are you ready?
If you control, collect or share any personal data belonging to EU citizens, you’d better be!
Google given 18 months to change its handling of user data
The Italian Data Protection Commissioner has given Google 18 months to change the way it treats and stores user data.
500,000-per-day SMS spammer gets just £4,000 fine
An Indian call-centre operator has been fined by a London court for breaching Data Protection laws, but despite his operation bombarding UK cell phones with spams, his punishment amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist.
Is TrueCrypt pining for the fjords?
An attempt at keeping the TrueCrypt dream alive has been kicked off, hosted in Switzerland. Will it make a difference? Sophos conducted a poll to see what IT managers think about TrueCrypt after all the news and speculation.