Benjamin Mayo reports: A serious Safari bug disclosed in this blog post from FingerprintJS can disclose information about your recent browsing history and even some info of the logged-in Google account. A bug in Safari’s IndexedDB implementation on Mac and iOS means that a website can see the names of databases for any domain, not just its…
Category: Breaches
Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber to pay $18.4M settlement over privacy allegations
Jessica Bartlett reports: Mass General Brigham and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have agreed to pay a combined $18.4 million settlement over allegations that the institutions fed personally identifiable information about patients to Facebook, Google and other companies. The class-action lawsuit was filed by two anonymous parties in Suffolk Superior Court in May 2019. The suit alleged…
A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data
Apostolis Fotiadis, Ludek Stavinoha, Giacomo Zandonini, and Daniel Howden report: The EU’s police agency, Europol, will be forced to delete much of a vast store of personal data that it has been found to have amassed unlawfully by the bloc’s data protection watchdog. The unprecedented finding from the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) targets what…
How Private Is Your Digital Vaccine Record?
Sandy B. Garfinkel and Emma M. Lombard of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC write, in part: If you are simply carrying a photographic image of your vaccine card in your phone, phones can be, and regularly are, hacked. Or, the owner of the phone may simply have inadequate protection from unauthorized access. […] If…