November 29, 2018

Massage app exposes users

Popular massage-booking app Urban left its database wide open.

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November 29, 2018

Google’s “deceitful” location tracking is against the law, say 7 EU groups

Seven European consumer organizations are planning to submit a complaint about Google's location tracking activities to their data protection authorities.

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November 27, 2018

LinkedIn rapped for targeting ads at 18 million Facebook users

What upset the Data Protection Commissioner: none of the 18 million email addresses were those of LinkedIn users.

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November 13, 2018

WordPress GDPR compliance plugin hacked

There's no obvious executable payload in the attack but the attackers may be building a collection of websites and biding their time.

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October 19, 2018

Apple privacy portal lets you see everything it knows about you

The Apple website's privacy and data area lets you download and correct your data.

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August 30, 2018

Football team drops the privacy ball with email Cc blunder

But at least now you know how to get in touch with people who might have an extra ticket...

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August 29, 2018

Facebook: It’s too tough to find personal data in our huge warehouse

GDPR: it means give users their data when they ask for it, and Facebook's refusal to do so has provoked an inquiry by the Irish DPC.

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July 23, 2018

Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter make leaving easier

The Data Transfer Project will allow users to move their data easily between participating services.

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July 20, 2018

Privacy – can you have too much of a good thing? [PODCAST]

Catch up with Day 4 of our Security SOS Week - here's the fourth episode of our week-long online security summit.

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