Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) had reportedly fined Aviva, NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative and AIG Asia Pacific Insurance $30,000, $10,000 and $9,000 respectively for accidentally disclosing policyholders' insurance documents to the wrong recipients. Due to the lapse of the insurance companies, an advisory was released...
Chinese phone maker Xiaomi recently announced that it has updated its privacy policy which will take effect on May 25, along with the GDPR. Under the new policy, Xiaomi says it will have to collect personal information from US users including driving license and passport details,...
It was reported this week that Ontario-based law firm Siskinds LLP had filed a class action lawsuit against Facebook for unlawful invasion of privacy caused by its involvement in the scandal with Cambridge Analytica. The complainants are seeking $62,216,100 CAD in damages plus an additional $1,000...
The National Privacy Commission revealed this week that the data of around 80,000 individuals, including customers and applicants, had been compromised in a leak last month of Wendy’s Philippines website. The commission had already ordered the company, Wenphil Corp., to alert people whose data had been...
A USA Today reporter revealed this week that it is possible to delete one’s publicly available personal information using online reputation services such as DeleteMe. However, it was pointed out that the service can be costly and in some instances, may not be worth the...
It was revealed this week that the personal information of millions of Indians may have been compromised by a breach at the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). A letter which was leaked on Twitter showed that data from the EPFO had been stolen by hackers who...
A coalition of Silicon Valley giants including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon and Oath slammed anew government requests for weaker encryption in a recent statement. The group says that new proposals that attempt to engineer vulnerabilities into devices and services all suffer from concerns that security...
In a YouTube video last Thursday, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) confirmed that it had lost the records for around 20 million accounts, but did not inform its clients. CBA’s acting head of retail banking services, Angus Sullivan, revealed that they had lost two...
A Facebook engineer had reportedly been fired this week for using his access to data for stalking women online. The social network said it began its investigation into the issue after receiving complaints from Spyglass Security founder Jackie Stokes last Monday. Stokes also said over Twitter...
To meet the requirements of EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), eBay announced that it has released a new set of privacy rules that would apply to all global properties. This means that even users outside of the EU will benefit from the change. The ecommerce...