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No federal privacy law will make it in the US this year, sources say

October 3, 2019 0 Comments california, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, Data privacy, Federal Trade Commission, GDPR, Law & order, legislation, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:19:55 +0000

Without one, the companies that collect our data will likely face compliance with California’s take-no-prisoners law, in effect 1 January 2020.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Pjj93Rj42bA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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In Identity Theft the Target is You!

October 2, 2019 0 Comments Consumer, Privacy

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:52:23 +0000

The hard truth is that identity data is the new gold—and criminal panhandlers are mining it for sale and distribution on the Dark Web. Indeed, the internet provides ways for big data breaches to result in disastrous leaks of huge databases of personal information, resulting in detailed profiles of individuals—based on their internet behaviors, including…

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218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers

October 2, 2019 0 Comments breach, data breach, data loss, draw something, gnosticplayers, hashing, omgpop, online games, passwords, Privacy, salt, salting, security threats, sha-1, sha1, words with friends, zynga

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 12:20:10 +0000

The serial hacker GnosticPlayers is claiming to have ransacked Zynga’s user data – including names, emails and passwords.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/5iXJ4_o_gJ4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ex-Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking 6,000 accounts

October 2, 2019 0 Comments dropbox, facebook, gmail, Hacking, icloud, Law & order, lechery, nudes, Privacy, reyes daniel ruiz, security threats, software engineer, yahoo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:41:17 +0000

Reyes Daniel Ruiz went after younger women’s accounts, including those of his personal friends and work colleagues, he admitted.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/aH0yMJKQHEU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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For Cybersecurity and Domestic Violence Awareness months, we pledge to fight stalkerware

October 1, 2019 0 Comments browser guard, cyberstalking, domestic violence, domestic violence awareness month, domestic violence victims, monitoring apps, national cyber security awareness month, national cybersecurity awareness month, ncsam, Privacy, spyware, stalkers, Stalkerware, tracking apps

Credit to Author: Wendy Zamora| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:00:14 +0000

Starting today, two hallmark holidays are upon us. No, it’s not Halloween and Thanksgiving. It’s both Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. It’s no coincidence these two awareness campaigns overlap. What were once seen as separate realities—the physical and the digital—are increasingly blurred as our offices, schools, and hospitals move from paper to…

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Cloudflare adds VPN features to 1.1.1.1 privacy app

October 1, 2019 0 Comments 1.1.1.1, argo smart routing, CloudFlare, cloudflare warp, dns, DNS-over-HTTPS, Mobile, Privacy, Technologies, vpn

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:07:47 +0000

As promised in April, Cloudflare has finally launched Warp, a consumer mobile privacy app that looks a lot like a VPN without actually being one.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/IXc1HLdLZ1Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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China’s 500 megapixel camera is capable of mega-facial-recognition

October 1, 2019 0 Comments 500mp, china, china social score, facial recognition, Government security, intelligence advanced research projects activity, Privacy, social credit score, social credit system, surveillance

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:31:34 +0000

The ‘super camera’ can identifying people dozens of meters away using facial recognition.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/GeYEe_eqh_k” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Vimeo sued for storing faceprints of people without their say-so

September 26, 2019 0 Comments AI, Artificial intelligence, biometric information privacy act, biometrics, BIPA, face tagging, facebook, faceprints, facial recognition, Illinois, Law & order, lawsuit, Machine Learning, magisto, photo tagging, Privacy, vimeo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 09:47:25 +0000

The suit was filed under BIPA, the Illinois law that requires written consent to grab people’s faceprints – the same law Facebook’s battling.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mzcU6d5eSbI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Insurance data security laws skirt political turmoil

September 25, 2019 0 Comments anthem, california, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, connecticut, Data privacy, data privacy law, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, data security, data security law, delaware, health insurance portability and accessibility, hipaa, insurance cybersecurity, insurance data security, insurance data security model law, Maine, mccarran ferguson act, michigan, Mississippi, model law, naic, national association of insurance commissioners, new hampshire, New York, new york department of financial services, nydfs, ohio, Privacy, south carolina, US data privacy laws, US data privacy legislation

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 22:44:47 +0000

Across the United States, a unique approach to lawmaking has seen radical success in making data security a little bit stronger for one industry—insurance providers.

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Google wins landmark case: Right to be forgotten only applies in EU

September 25, 2019 0 Comments cnil, court of justice of the european union, EU, france, geoblocking, Google, google search, Law & order, Privacy, privacy watchdog, right to be forgotten, rtbf, search engines

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:55:04 +0000

Yes, people have the right to be forgotten, but only if they’re European, the top EU court ruled on Tuesday.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/XQWHqX4_TKA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>