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Thomas Fox-Brewster reports: Now that the Conservative Party has secured a majority government in the UK, it’s pushing ahead with plans to expand the surveillance state with the Communications Data Bill, also known as Snooper’s Charter, which would require communications providers from BT to Facebook to maintain records of customers’ internet activity, text messages and voice…

This vulnerability was found in a Twenty Fifteen plugin called JetPak. You all know what to do by now.

PHIprivacy.net had a select and very dedicated readership, but it was time to consolidate my work and put all breach reports back together on one site. As of today, there is a new “Health Data” category on DataBreaches.net. That category will continue to be used for breaches involving the healthcare sector, but now it will…

In 2008, I spun off PHIprivacy.net from PogoWasRight.org to start reporting on all the breaches and medical privacy issues of concern to me. The following year, I spun off DataBreaches.net from PogoWasRight.org to cover all non-healthcare sector breaches. It’s time to re-merge. Three blogs are just too much to keep running. But don’t worry: you’ll…

This was from last month, but I just caught up with it. Blanton Smith reported: Plunket have launched an investigation after medical records were found in a house at the Taranaki Building Removers’ yard. For those not familiar with them, “Plunket” is the Royal New Zealand Plunket Society, a provider of support services for children 5 years…

So I had planned to spend some time this weekend working on a post about why I think Rogers was incorrect when they claimed “no personal data” was acquired by TeamHans in a recent hack reported on this site. My plans were derailed a few days ago when my sites were suddenly no longer reachable. It…