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Apple Employee Threatens to Leak User’s iCloud Data

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Dissent

Chen Na reports: “Your personal data belongs to you, not others,” reads a bold declaration on Apple’s webpage for user privacy. But for one Chinese customer, this proved not to be the case after an Apple tech support employee threatened to leak his photos, contacts, emails, and memos online. An article describing how the Apple…

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Waltham Forest Council has breached data protection laws

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Dissent

Alice Richardson reports: A Waltham Forest Council employee uploaded a video containing “sensitive information” to Youtube, a report filled with damning personal data breaches has revealed. The report by private consultants Agilisys noted the council is currently not currently compliant with data protection regulations. It also shows how personal information was wrongly disclosed 18 times…

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Event: Fireside Chat: Chilling Effects on Security Research

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Dissent

By Center for Democracy & Technology DESCRIPTION For many years, security researchers, infosec experts, and hackers have faced negative consequences such as legal threats and prosecution for simply doing their jobs. These so-called “chilling effects” have reached near-mythical status, and the level of understanding of potential risks varies throughout the tech policy community. Please join…

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Pennsylvania’s attorney general sues Uber over 2016 data breach

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Dissent

Harper Neidig reports that the Pennsylvania Attorney General is suing Uber over its 2016 data breach. The following is the state’s press release: HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro today filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies, Inc. for violating Pennsylvania’s data breach notification law.  Uber knew for more than a year that a data breach potentially impacting…

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Survey: 18% of Health Employees Would Sell Confidential Data

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Dissent

Those who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000. Alexandra Wilson Pecci reports: Patients trust their healthcare providers to keep their data safe, but according to a new survey, that trust might sometimes be misplaced. The Accenture survey found that nearly one in…

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Regulatory Gap: Cybersecurity at K-12 Schools

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Dissent

Nicole Della Ragione and Leora F. Ardizzone report: While data breaches at Equifax, Yahoo, Anthem and Target have made the national news, data breaches at school districts are not as widely publicized. Schools are a treasure trove of children’s personally identifiable information (PII) (e.g., name, address, Social Security number) and protected health information (PHI), as…

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