Microsoft’s LinkedIn Sued for Abusing Clipboard Access Apple’s Universal Clipboard allows you to share data between devices. According to the lawsuit, LinkedIn reads the data without notifying the user. However, LinkedIn is not alone. More than 50 apps, apparently, do that. Now that they have been sued, they are changing their app. Credit: Reuters When […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Breaches Gone Wild – Very Wild Since EU’s GDPR went into effect on May 25, 2018 – about 18 months ago – 160,000 Breaches have been reported to EU authorities. A calculator will tell you that means that people are reporting between 250 and 300 security incidents A DAY! If you think that magically, 18 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The EU’s high court – the Court of Justice of the European Union – said this week that web sites including search engines must ask users to opt in to sharing of their data. Web sites such as Google know that if users have to actively do something for the sole purpose of allowing Google […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When GDPR first went into effect in May 2018, people talked about horror stories of fines to the tune of 4% of a company’s total global revenue. Then reality hit and there were no fines or tiny fines. Or so it seemed. The problem with regulators is that it always takes them a while. Legitimately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Poland’s data protection regulator made an interesting decision affecting a Swedish based digital marketing company named Bisnode. Poland’s regulator, the national Personal Data Protection Office (UODO in Polish), fined Bisnode 220,000 Euros for failing to comply with Article 14 of GDPR. Article 14 requires a data controller to inform a person when it collects data […]
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