Claire Duffy reports: Facebook (FB)-parent Meta has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old class action lawsuit over a practice that allowed the social network to track users’ activity across the internet, even if they had logged out of the platform. […] The settlement applies to US Facebook users who had an account between April 22,…
Category: Breaches
Willful wrongdoing by healthcare workers continues to pose problems
Snooping through patient records continues to be a serious problem in the healthcare sector — and it’s not country-specific. Here are two articles that showed up in my news searches this morning. From the UK: NHS disciplines more than two staff a day for mishandling medical records, with employees caught snooping on files of friends,…
Twitter cans 2FA service provider over surveillance claims
MalwareBytes Labs writes: Twitter is transitioning away from from its two-factor authentication (2FA) provider, Mitto AG, a Swiss communications company. The social media giant broke the news to US Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. It is noted that Twitter’s decision to move away from Mitto AG came after allegations that its co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Ilja…
Singapore: MCI responds to unauthorised sales of personal data over the past five years
Andy Leck, Lim Ren, and Arwen Berry write; In brief On 10 January 2022, the Singapore Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) responded to a parliamentary question relating to the number of cases of unauthorised sales of consumers’ personal data that have been investigated over the last five years, and how many of those cases…