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Survey Says: Americans Concerned About Data Collection Practices

Well maybe not concerned enough to change their practices, but concerned. When asked if their data is more secure, less secure or about the same as compared to five years ago, 70 percent said their data was less secure.  6 percent said it was more secure. On the side of “gee, you mean I have […]

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The Internet of Things is Still a Privacy Dumpster Fire

No, not literally, but close. Researchers investigated 81 Internet of Things (IoT) devices like smart TVs or security cameras. The researchers ran 34,000+ experiments and found that 72 of those devices contacted someone other than the manufacturer.  For example, almost all of the TVs contacted Netflix, even if you don’t have a Netflix account.  For […]

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$67 Million Jury Verdict for Violating People’s Privacy

This is not directly a security issue.  Or a privacy issue. Because the County did not get hacked. BUT it still is important to businesses.  And governments. Juries are no longer sitting back and allowing organizations to ignore basic privacy law without consequences. In this case it is Bucks County, Pennsylvania (population about 650,000), and […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending February 1, 2019

GDPR Gone Crazy I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat! According to the European Commission, Europe’s data protection regulators received more than 95,000 complaints about possible data breaches in the first 8 months of GDPR. At the same time businesses reported over 41,000 breaches. But regulators only opened 255 investigations. Many of the complaints […]

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Facebook 0, Apple 1; Google is Collateral Damage

You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect.  The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]

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