Scott Ikeda reports: South Korea has quietly developed one of the more robust sets of data protection regulations in the world, and the country recently brought these terms to bear on three of the biggest online platforms and service providers. Facebook, Google and Netflix are facing fines and actions for privacy violations, with Facebook assessed…
Category: Breaches
WhatsApp Fined $266 Million Over Data Transparency Breaches
Stephanie Bodoni and Katharine Gemmell of Bloomberg report: Facebook Inc.’s WhatsApp was ordered to pay a 225 million-euro ($266 million) penalty for failing to be transparent about how it handled personal information, its first fine under beefed-up European Union data protection law. The Irish Data Protection Commission — Silicon Valley’s main privacy watchdog in Europe…
FTC Bans SpyFone and CEO from Surveillance Business and Orders Company to Delete All Secretly Stolen Data
Today, the Federal Trade Commission banned SpyFone and its CEO Scott Zuckerman from the surveillance business over allegations that the stalkerware app company secretly harvested and shared data on people’s physical movements, phone use, and online activities through a hidden device hack. The company’s apps sold real-time access to their secret surveillance, allowing stalkers and…
A popular smart home security system can be remotely disarmed, researchers say
As devices and cities have becoming increasingly “smart” (which may turn out to be one of the most tongue-in-cheek labels ever), we are seeing more and more reports of hacks or how things can go very, very bad. In today’s installment, Zack Whittaker reports that security firm Rapid7 claims it found a pair of vulnerabilities…