Category: Commentaries and Analyses

Ca: Alberta Health department flouts privacy law, watchdog finds

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Matt McClure reports: Alberta Health is flouting the law by failing to provide the required oversight to prevent snooping and privacy breaches involving electronic health records, says the province’s privacy watchdog. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner released an investigation report Wednesday that found a legally-mandated committee charged with overseeing stewardship of data made…

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Hackers Could Take Control Of Your Car, But You Can’t Sue Carmakers For That Risk

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Eric Goldman writes: Cars contain millions of lines of software code, which makes them tempting targets for hackers. Further, with the increased automation of cars, we face growing risks that malicious hackers will remotely take control of cars and cause significant personal or property damage. Ideally, car manufacturers would be actively combating this risk, but…

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Hong Kong government praised for world-leading data protection protocols despite weaknesses exposed by hacking of VTech

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Jack Liu reports: As Hong Kong reels from last month’s hacking of children’s toy maker VTech, global telecoms experts say the city is still one of the world’s leading lights in terms of the importance it places on protecting data privacy. “Hong Kong is at or near the top of the list in addressing the cyber security privacy…

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Companies fail to report breaches more often than realized

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Jigsaw Security Analytics posted an interesting report today. Over the past few months we have been silently collecting data and comparing news articles to actual data that our OSINT-X platform has been monitoring. […] We setup a  quick test plan and implemented the plan in OSINT-X to basically read news articles, pull out any references…

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