A few days after the Aetna incident, pharmacy giant CVS may have also committed the same mistake of revealing the HIV status of around 4000 customers in their mailing campaign. CVS admitted that the pharmacy benefit information which was mailed to the members of the...
After the very recent data leak blunder that smartphone maker Essential found itself in, CEO Andy Rubin announced that the startup will be offering its customers a one year free subscription to LifeLock, which is a service that claims to protect a user from identity...
Major League Lacrosse recently admitted to having accidentally exposed the personal data of all the players in their player pool. The league revealed that the leak occurred last August 23, in which information including players' full names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers,...
A government whistleblower recently revealed that Sweden may be following in the footsteps of Russia and China with regards to VPNs. A leak from Swedish ISP Bahnhof alleges that the Swedish government is mulling over plans to force VPns to keep usage logs. ISPs are already...
Newspaper ‘The Indian Express’ had reported that Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi revealed that almost 40% of the country’s smartphone users knowingly and unknowingly share their data to the world. Mehrishi disclosed this information before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs when he was...
President Donald Trump recently nominated Adam Klein as chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Klein is known to have opposed the warrant rule that requires authorities to have a warrant to be able to legally search American communications which are collected “incidentally”. Klein...
Developers at TSignal are currently working on a search engine which is expected to by more “privacy-focused” than DuckDuckGo. DeepSearch, which is currently in alpha stage, is expected to provide users unbiased search results while preserving total privacy. TSignal founder Vipin Kumar says that unlinke DuckDuckGo,...
Andy Rubin, CEO of Essential, has recently made an apology to its customers for a security failure that compromised personal user information. Earlier this week, the company admitted that the sensitive information which included names, emails, and even driver license and ID details, were accidentally shared...
Instagram recently alerted its verified users that their phones and emails may be the target of unlawful access attempts. The security issue, caused by a buggy API, was quickly fixed, and the company assured that no passwords were compromised. A similar incident involving the hacking...
A trial court in India has ordered a probe into the alleged selling of data by online job website Monster.com. Monster is said to have sold the data of job seekers to a third party, but the company is saying that what they did is legal...