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Google Data Breach Faces Review by Irish Privacy Watchdog

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Dissent

Stephanie Bodoni reports: Google faces a possible investigation by Irish data privacy regulators related to reports that contractors had been able to listen to audio of users of its digital assistant technology. The Irish Data Protection Commission received a breach notification from the company late Thursday, said Graham Doyle, the agency’s spokesman. Google reacted in…

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Google is investigating the source of voice data leak, plans to update its privacy policies

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Sarah Perez reports: Google has responded to a report this week from Belgian public broadcaster VRT NWS, which revealed that contractors were given access to Google Assistant voice recordings, including those which contained sensitive information — like addresses, conversations between parents and children, business calls and others containing all sorts of private information. As a…

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ROMANIA: Romanian Data Protection Authority issues fine for inappropriate TOMs

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Andrei Stoica of DLA Piper writes: Just days after proudly announcing its first fine under the GDPR, the Romanian Data Protection Authority has done it again: World Trade Center Bucharest S.A. must pay 15,000 euro for breaching the provisions of Art. 32 para. (4) GDPR corroborated with Art. 32 paras. (1) and (2) GDPR. What…

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160,000 resumes on Chinese recruitment site Zhilian allegedly exposed and leaked

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Cyrus Lee reports: Zhilian Zhaopin, one of the top job recruitment sites in China, has released evidence at a Beijing trial showing that as many as 160,000 personal resumes uploaded onto its site were allegedly stolen and leaked for around 5 yuan (70 US cents) apiece, according to a Sina report. Following the evidence being…

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DNA-testing service exposed thousands of customer records online

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Nico Grant reports: DNA-testing service Vitagene Inc. left thousands of client health reports exposed online for years, the kind of incident that privacy advocates have warned about as gene testing has become increasingly popular. More than 3,000 user files remained accessible to the public on Amazon Web Services cloud-computer servers until July 1, when Vitagene…

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Hackers breached Greece’s top-level domain registrar

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Dissent

Catalin Cimpanu reports: State-sponsored hackers have breached ICS-Forth, the organization that manages Greece’s top-level domain country codes of .gr and .el. ICS-Forth, which stands for the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology, publicly admitted to the security incident in emails it sent ot domain owners on April 19. The hackers…

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