IANS reports: The Tamil Nadu Public Health Department has commenced inquiry into complaints from several districts of the state that private hospitals are accessing the details of Covid-19 positive patients, officials said. The department has deputed its district-level officers to conduct inquiries in respective districts after several complaints were received in this regard. In Salem,…
Category: Breaches
French court upholds 100 mln euro fine against Google for breaches linked to cookie policy
Tassilo Hummel reports: France’s Conseil d’Etat, the country’s supreme administrative court, on Friday said it upheld a decision by a watchdog imposing a 100 million euro ($111.46 million) fine on the U.S. tech giant for breaches linked to its cookies policy. Read more at Reuters.
News from here and there this past week…..
Some of the news stories spotted by Joe Cadillic this past week: Social Credit Surveillance Will Reach $736M Globally By 2026: https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/5134311/socialcredit-market-by-physical-and-cyber CBP stopping and searching vehicles in Salton City, California: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/firearm-ammo-meth-seized-vehicle-stop Court Orders The FBI To Reveal Details About Sabre Tracking More Than 1 Billion Passengers Air Travels In Real Time: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/court-orders-authorizing-law-enforcement-track-peoples-air-travels-real-time-must https://www.eff.org/document/forbes-media-v-united-states-eff-amicus-brief FBI…
Safari bug can leak some of your Google account info and recent browsing history
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…