On April 6, the FBI Denver Twitter account tweeted some good advice (or maybe they didn’t — see the update under this post!) The FBI advice not to use publicly available chargers or USB ports in airports, hotels or other public spaces is good advice that some of us have been practicing for years now….
Category: Breaches
HIPAA: Deficient or Miscast
Matt Fisher writes: The development of new technology in healthcare and the massive expansion in sources of healthcare data have both created many complications when it comes to protecting and securing sensitive information about individuals. Inevitably, the discussion then turns to the role of HIPAA, which then turns to HIPAA not meeting current needs. A recent…
Fr: Geolocation of rental scooters: CITYSCOOT fined €125,000
From CNIL, France’s data protection regulator: On 16 March 2023, the CNIL imposed a fine of €125,000 on the company CITYSCOOT in particular because it disproportionately infringed on the privacy of its customers by geolocating them almost permanently. In 2020, the CNIL partly focused its investigations on several priority thematic areas related to the everyday concerns…
Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
Reuters reports: Tesla assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees…