Stephanie Bodoni reports: Amazon.com Inc. faces the biggest ever European Union privacy fine after its lead privacy watchdog hit it with a 746 million-euro ($888 million) penalty for violating the bloc’s tough data protection rules. CNPD, the Luxembourg data protection authority slapped Amazon with the record fine in a July 16 decision that accused the online retailer of…
Category: Breaches
NZ: Privacy Commissioner concerned about media conduct with respect to Waikato DHB breach reporting
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…
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…