New Zealand’s Privacy Commissioner John Edwards issued a statement about the conduct of some NZ media with respect to the Waikato DHB ransomware incident and data dump. While I have great respect for both the commissioner and his office, his statement seems to suggest that press should self-censor or be censored when it comes to…
Category: Breaches
Spyware features found in Chinese state benefits app
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Spyware-like features have been discovered inside an app named “Beijing One Pass” that foreign companies operating in China are forced to install on their systems in order to access a digital platform to manage employee state benefits. The spyware behavior was discovered last month by Insikt Group, the threat research division of…
Ca: Prisoners at Mission Institution sue authorities over alleged privacy breach
Keith Fraser reports: A group of prisoners at Mission Institution is suing the authorities over an alleged breach of privacy that they claim posed a threat to them. The 47 prisoners say that from about April 2020 to July 2020 employees and servants of the federal medium and minimum security prison posted notices on a…
French privacy regulator fines Monsanto for privacy breach
Vincent Manancourt reports: France’s data protection authority has fined agribusiness Monsanto €400,000 for privacy violations. In a statement Wednesday, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) said the Bayer-owned company had infringed European privacy rules by not informing people that it had recorded their information in a lobbying file. Read more on Politico.