Ireland — Last Thursday, trusted parking service company Mr. Parker informed customers that their system might have been breached after a service outage that occurred in the same day. Following the said outage, the team caught what seemed to be a suspicious software in their server....
France — Hertz, the French car rental company has been ordered to pay €40,000 as penalty for neglecting to secure private information of an estimated 36,000 customers. Under a new digital republic regulation passed in November 2016, Hertz had committed a kind of data breach that...
Earlier this week, CIA-supported defense startup Palantir discussed how its state-of-the-art surveillance system uses pre-crime operations to lock down on suspects even before an offense is committed. Sources say the elusive defense operation does not have an office, but is running covertly in a sensitive compartmentalized...
New York — In a report last Friday, commercial DNA testing company Family Tree DNA has questioned the Genetic Privacy Act of Alaska for being unconstitutional, citing it has unclear, ill-defined terms that pertain to disclosures and analyzing DNA with advised consent. The court action is...
News last Friday reports that data storage giant Seagate is paying $5.75 million over a lawsuit involving staff that mistakenly sent a trove of employee data in 2016 via phishing email. The settlement will wipe out allegations that Seagate violated regulations under the California competition...
San Francisco, CA - Last Friday, a report detailed how startup GlobalID's mission to commence a decentralized ID system treads polarized notions of what it would mean for security and data privacy. With a decentralized system, the company intends to widen financial accessibility for the poor,...
Placecast, a mobile data location management firm, announced it will launch a revolutionary Location Verification Tool that will aid marketers in successfully targeting ads to their intended consumers, according to a report last Saturday. Company CEO Alistair Goodman cited research from Mobile Marketing Association revealing that...
Canada — Last Friday, WestJet issued a statement on the data leak involving the profile information of passengers enrolled in their Rewards membership program. The Calgary-based airline noted that the details that were exposed online did not involved banking data or credit card numbers. Despite...
In a report last Friday, online market Freelancer emailed its users that their passwords have been changed after confirming their login credentials were posted in a public database. The Australia company explained to customers that the leak did not happen in their own network. According to...
News last Friday reported iRobot founder and CEO Colin Angle denying Reuters' previous report that said they have plans to sell customer data from Roomba. iRobot's Roomba is an automatic vacuum that maps out customer's houses to employ smart cleaning technology. While using this information can...