Cathay Pacific may be able to escape harsh penalties under Hong Kong, US, and EU privacy laws since its data breach was discovered three months before May 25, which is the date the GDPR came into effect. The breach exposed a total of 403 expired credit...
The National Privacy Commission said this week that it was able to secure a voting seat at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC). As a young member of the 5-member executive committee, the Philippines will have the privilege to contribute in addressing...
Facebook has been penalized by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) £500,000 for its data breach scandal involving Cambridge Analytica. The ICO said that it had found that Facebook had allowed the "unfair" sharing of user data with developers without "clear and informed consent between 2007...
British Airways revealed this week that its estimates of the number of people that had been affected by its breach is actually bigger, and that a further 185,000 customers may have had their information stolen. The UK carrier said that hackers behind the attack may have...
Facebook’s former chief security officer, Alex Stamos, tweeted some scathing criticisms this week against Apple’s decisions to limit access to apps in China. Stamos elaborated that it would not be good for the media to create an incentive structure that ignores treating Chinese citizens as less-deserving...
Google announced this week that it has rolled out some new privacy controls for its search service which will help users review and delete their search history directly from the tool. Users can now review their history by going to the menu in the top left...
Cathay Pacific airlines disclosed this week that it had been hit by a breach which is estimated to affect around 9.4 million individuals. The Hong Kong-based airline said that passenger information such as names, nationality, date of birth, phone number, email address, passport number, identity card...
Hacken’s Cyber Risk Research director Bob Diachenko revealed this week that a firm which handles political fundraisers for the Democratic Party has left a trove of personal data completely exposed online on an unsecured NAS device. Diachenko said that the breach affected names, phones, emails, addresses,...
An energy industry coalition sent European authorities this week a letter protesting a proposed ePrivacy regulation which it says would hurt business models in the clean energy sector. The group, composed of Eurelectric, smartEn, metering industry group ESMIG, the European Heat Pump Association (EHPA) and SolarPower...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit this week against the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department today to determine if the police’s use of cell-site simulators in criminal investigations were justified. The online privacy rights group sought to to gain access to records about search...