Vincent Manancourt reports: Jack Murphy* was suspicious. His ex-girlfriend, Eve Doherty, seemed to know a lot about who he was calling. His suspicions were merited. Doherty had been using her job in the Irish police force to access his phone records, an investigation by the local judiciary revealed. Doherty was disciplined and transferred in 2011. Three…
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An Air Force vet who worked at Facebook is suing the company saying it accessed deleted user data and shared it with law enforcement
Isobel Asher Hamilton reports: A former Facebook staffer and Air Force veteran is suing Meta saying he was fired in retaliation for raising concerns about a protocol that let Facebook employees access deleted user data. Brennan Lawson filed his lawsuit with a California court on Tuesday. Insider has viewed the lawsuit, in which Lawson said he was…
Senators sound the alarm on privacy, call for HIPAA update
Mike Miliard reports: In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on July 1, Senators Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., called on HHS to use its powers to ensure the HIPAA Privacy Rule is better positioned to protect the health information of patients seeking reproductive healthcare. The Supreme Court’s…
Apple Debuts Spyware Protection for State-Sponsored Cyberattacks
DarkReading reports: Apple today announced a new feature called Lockdown Mode that automatically locks down any system functionality that could be hijacked by even the most sophisticated, state-sponsored mercenary spyware to compromise a user device. While Apple acknowledged in its statement announcing the initiative that the number of users who might need Lockdown Mode is…