Herb Weisman reports: Adults aren’t the only ones who can have their identity stolen. Tens of millions of American children had their Social Security numbers, date of birth and health care ID numbers stolen in the recent data breach at health insurance giant, Anthem Inc. This exposes these kids to the real risk of identity…
Category: Breaches
Top 10 U.S. Privacy Developments of 2014
Jeff Kosseff, Meena Harris, and Caleb Skeath have a really nice recap of the year. It begins: Data Breaches Studies show increase. Amidst a flurry of high-profile breaches during 2014, several studies confirmed that data breaches as a whole have risen significantly over the past few years. The California Attorney General released a study showing…
WhatsApp spy tool lets anyone track when you’re online
Lisa Vaas reports: Just a few weeks after WhatsApp was found to be flashing photos that users weren’t supposed to see, we’ve got another privacy glitch: this time, it looks like changing your privacy settings doesn’t stop people from tracking your status and any changes you’ve made to profile photos, status messages and settings. This bug,…
Cybersecurity and Privacy: A Country of Mushrooms re: Recent Major Data Breaches
Shamoil T. Shipchandler of Bracewell & Giuliani LLP has a great commentary about how our country is doing on cybersecurity and privacy. It begins: When it comes right down to it, we are about as bad at cybersecurity as Twitter’s CFO is at Twitter or North Korea is at coming up with new political slogans to commemorate its 70th anniversary. The…