Canada’s strict anti-spam laws have come down hard on another offender, with the operators of dating website Plenty Of Fish paying a $48,000 penalty for failing to provide proper unsubscribe options in emails sent to its users.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Uber goes Big Data, shares customers’ data with a hotel chain
Uber has joined the rank of Big Data sellers, up there with Facebook, Google and Visa. The product: data about customers’ movements, where they shop, where they work, where they go and much more. 
Entire Oakland Police license plate reader data set handed to journalist
The entire LPR dataset of the Oakland Police Department (OPD) included more than 4.6 million reads of over 1.1 million unique plates captured in just over 3 years.
SSCC 191 – Live in Ljubljana [PODCAST]
Chester is on the road again, this time to present at a conference in Slovenia. So this episode of the Chet Chat comes to you from an al fresco café in downtown Ljubljana…
Google Glass isn’t dead. It’s being fine-tuned for the masses
Privacy concerns made it smell like yesterday’s fish, but apparently that’s just the aroma of fine-tuning as the beloved/reviled face-huggers get made ready for the masses. 
Twitch resets passwords, says user details may have been stolen
Video game streaming service Twitch reveals it was hacked, but it doesn’t say how it happened or how many users are affected.
What’s that screenshot doing on Facebook? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Facebook, ransomware and updates to updates – all in 60 seconds! Our weekly video for 21 March 2015…
Thought your private phone photos weren’t on Facebook? Think again…
Facebook just fixed a privacy bug in a feature of its mobile app called “Photo Sync.” That’s good news…but did you even notice that Photo Sync was on in the first place?
NYPD cop arrested for hacking into FBI, traffic databases
The NYPD cop installed a hidden camera and hacked into databases containing personal information about victims of traffic accidents so he could pose, among other things, as an attorney who could help them with legal claims.
Target agrees to pay $10 million to settle data breach lawsuit
Target has proposed a huge $10 million settlement for victims of its 2013 data breach in which at least 70 million records were compromised.