Graham Cluley reports: Twitter has fixed an embarrassing bug that impacted 93,788 users of the service, who mistakenly believed that they had control over who could see their micro-blogging updates. […] According to a brief blog post by Twitter, the privacy hole has been present since November 2013, and has exposed the updates of 93,788 accounts that…
Category: Breaches
FL: Keeping I.D. Safe Act Passes In House Committee
Space Coast Daily reports: The House Regulatory Affairs Committee today unanimously passed the Keeping I.D. Safe (K.I.D.S.) Act, a priority of Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam to keep Florida’s children safe from identity theft. More than 50,000 children in Florida become victims of identity theft every year and more than $100,000 million is stolen every…
Newsweek article gets backlash for privacy invasion
An article on Newsweek by Leah McGrath Goodman is getting a lot of negative feedback. In her piece on the creator of Bitcoin, Goodman repeatedly acknowledges Satoshi Nakamoto’s desire for – and efforts to protect his – personal privacy, yet the piece provides a lot of personal details on him, including a picture of his home…
UK review of data protection sanctions should include consideration of increasing £500,000 fine threshold, says expert
The UK government should consider raising the level of fines that the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) can impose on organisations that breach the Data Protection Act (DPA), an expert has said. Data protection law specialist Kathryn Wynn of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that a previous increase in the maximum level of fine that…