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
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…
160,000 resumes on Chinese recruitment site Zhilian allegedly exposed and leaked
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…
DNA-testing service exposed thousands of customer records online
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…
Hackers breached Greece’s top-level domain registrar
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…
Statement: Intention to fine Marriott International, Inc more than £99 million under GDPR for data breach
The ICO is on a roll… now they’ve issued a statement about their intention to fine Marriott, although it appears that their statement may have been issued because Marriott first notified the SEC that it was going to be fined. Here is the ICO’s statement: Statement in response to Marriott International, Inc’s filing with the…