Members of parliament (MP) had reportedly raised several privacy-related concerns in the debate for the Public Sector (Governance) Bill which was passed last January 8. Mr. Zaqy Mohamed (Chua Chu Kang GRC) asked whether the government can give any assurance that citizens won’t actively be...
In a breach notification letter recently sent to California’s Office of the Attorney General, an online beauty product vendor admitted that it is unable to properly assess the extent of security breach that hit its systems as they had failed to keep any backups. Rea.deeming...
Last Monday, Electronic toymaker VTech Technologies settled a lawsuit which accused the company of violating the privacy of children who used their connected toys. It was also found that the identifying data of around 6.4 million children, and 4.9 million adults had been compromised in...
Last Monday, the Singaporean Parliament passed the Public Sector (Governance) Bill which establishes new laws governing the data-sharing framework between public sector agencies. Under the new laws, public sector officers who share the personal information of Singaporeans, or those who use such data to benefit themselves,...
Alberta, Canada - The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) recently reported that it had issued decisions on 162 data breaches, which is more than double the number from any previous year. The privacy breaches were mostly due to hacking, malware, or phishing, but...
A 17-year old Staten Island high-school student recently received a letter from Google informing him that the NYPD is seeking his “contacts, e-mails, history and other digital documentation” from the search giant. The teen was also furnished a redacted copy of the subpoena which made...
The Australian Privacy Foundation recently called out the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and the federal government for not publishing a report on the incident that involved the leak of Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data in September 2016. The APF was...
Last week, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published new guidelines which detailed the updated procedures for inspection of electronic devices at US borders. The CBP, which is part of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), explained the difference between Basic Search and Advanced...
Security researchers at Rhino Labs recently discovered that a Microsoft feature called subDoc can be used to extract NTLM hashes from Windows machines. The subDoc feature allows Word files to load sub-documents from a master document. In one scenario, attackers can use subDoc to load a...
Chinese tech titans are now feeling the backlash of consumer concerns regarding privacy after a billion dollar deal between the US government and Tencent’s Ant Financial Services Group failed to materialize. It is said that privacy and security questions are likely to hound the two...