Trishla Ostwal reports: The government body of the European Union, the European Commission, is facing a lawsuit over an alleged data breach related to transferring personal data from Europe to the U.S. The lawsuit—now admitted by the General Court of the European Union (EGC)—alleges the use of Amazon Web Services, the use of Facebook login…
Category: Breaches
Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations
Zack Whittaker reports: Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles around the world, according to new research. Worse, the company that makes the GPS trackers has made no effort to fix them. Cybersecurity startup BitSight said…
Zuckerberg to Testify Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach
Corinne Reichert reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify in a lawsuit over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach. Current COO Sheryl Sandberg, who is leaving Meta in the fall, has also been asked to provide testimony, as reported earlier Wednesday by Gizmodo. Zuckerberg will be deposed for up to 6 hours and Sandberg for 5 hours in September,…
Clearview AI fined $20 million, banned from processing biometric data in Greece after GDPR violations
Jonathan Greig reports: Greece’s privacy authority has fined facial recognition company Clearview AI €20 million for violating parts of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA) released a 22-page decision demanding Clearview AI stop processing biometric data on individuals in Greece and said the company must delete all the data it has…