Eoin O’Dell writes: Two recent cases demonstrate two very different privacy issues arising out data breaches suffered by the telecommunications company TalkTalk in 2014 and 2015. Smith v TalkTalk Telecom Group plc [2022] EWHC 1311 (QB) (27 May 2022) concerned claims for damages for both breaches; whilst Sterritt v Telegraph Media Group Ltd [2022] NIQB 43 (09 June 2022) concerned the…
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Messaging app JusTalk is spilling millions of unencrypted messages
Zack Whittaker reports: Popular video calling and messaging app JusTalk claims to be both secure and encrypted. But a security lapse has proven the app to be neither secure nor encrypted after a huge cache of users’ unencrypted private messages was found online. [..] Security researcher Anurag Sen found the data this week and asked TechCrunch for…
EU Commission Sued Over Alleged Transatlantic Data Breach to the US
Trishla Ostwal reports: The government body of the European Union, the European Commission, is facing a lawsuit over an alleged data breach related to transferring personal data from Europe to the U.S. The lawsuit—now admitted by the General Court of the European Union (EGC)—alleges the use of Amazon Web Services, the use of Facebook login…
Thailand admits to using phone spyware, cites national security
Panu Wongcha-um reports: A Thai minister has admitted the country uses surveillance software to track individuals in cases involving national security or drugs, amid revelations that government critics’ phones had been hacked using the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware. Minister of Digital Economy and Society, Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, said in parliament late on Tuesday that he is aware…