Mary Ashley Salvino writes: If the Federal Trade Commission were a major league baseball team, it might be fair to view 2022 as a rebuilding year regarding its privacy enforcement authority. 2023, on the other hand, might just be the season that marks the FTC’s long-awaited return to a privacy authority winning streak. The FTC…
Category: Breaches
Hong Kong privacy watchdog finds healthcare chain shared database with personal details of over 1 million customers among its companies
Rachel Yeo reports: A healthcare chain in Hong Kong has shared a database containing the personal information of more than a million customers among several of its member companies without their consent, the privacy watchdog has found, although the business insists strict limits on access were set. […] In response to the individual cases highlighted…
World Cup apps pose a data security and privacy nightmare
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: With mandated spyware downloads to tens of thousands of surveillance cameras equipped with facial-recognition technology, the World Cup in Qatar next month is looking more like a data security and privacy nightmare than a celebration of the beautiful game. Football fans and others visiting Qatar must download two apps: Ehteraz, a Covid-19…
Twitter security execs quit amid worries that Musk will violate FTC settlement
As someone who was an active user of Twitter for more than a decade, I cannot begin to communicate how utterly awful that platform has become in the past few years. First, it was all the disinformation and vileness by Trump supporters who seemingly refuse to understand that a private company is not a government…