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The alleged database was said to contain scraped data, including names, phone numbers, Clubhouse ranks and Facebook profile links. Recommendations are for Clubhouse and Facebook users to remain vigilant and prepare for any cyberattacks – also to consider enabling two factor authentication.

Instead of improving anonymity and shielding IP addresses, the new iCloud Private Relay, which routs user Internet traffic on Safari, was found to leak user IP addresses.

The UK has released a first look at its proposed data protection reforms post-Brexit. The consultation document, "Data: a new direction" invites input until November 19th and provides details on plans to handle data in a pro-growth, pro-business way, that may put it at odds with GDPR. The far-reaching changes, if passed, raise questions about data transfers and flow of information between the EU and UK. Changes under consideration include requiring organizations to run a privacy management program, raising the threshold for breach reporting, and charging for or refusing data subject access requests deemed costly to a company.

A Ponemon Institute survey of nearly 600 IT professionals at Healthcare Delivery Organizations (HDOs) found remote work, new systems, staff challenges and elevated patient care requirements a significant risk to patient safety and data. Sixty percent of those surveyed reported increased credential theft, and expanded use of 3rd party vendors, with projections that use of 3rd parties would increase 30% in the coming year.

A survey of 3,400 consumers in the US, UK, Germany, France and Australia looked at registration, login and attitudes toward privacy serves as a warning to companies to keep processes concise and the time required short, with more than half saying they ditched a site that was too frustrating, and 63% prepared to leave a site in favor of another that made authentication easier.

Widespread outrage resulting from a Wall Street Journal report including research from in-house documents showing Facebook knows Instagram is harmful to teens, but is advancing its Instagram for Kids program anyway, has caused the company to retrench – though only to pause the program for ages up to 13. Those older, the company says, would have expanded parental oversight. Critics, including members of Congress investigating the issues, fear this will not mitigate the problem for teens, who according to Facebook researchers, said Instagram exacerbates image issues, anxiety and depression, particularly in teen... Read More >

The promise applies only to paying customers and for a penalty that occurs while using their platform.

The glasses have a voice-activated camera that can be told by the wearer to take photos or short videos of other people.

A key feature is that NewGuard will enable Zefr clients to create inclusion & exclusion lists.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that health apps & devices that collect personal health information must notify consumers if their data is breached. The FTC specifically identified fertility data, fitness and blood glucose data as having been inadequately managed in the past.

Security experts have revealed that millions of people who got COVID tested at Walgreens may have had their personal data, including name, email, phone number and date of birth, exposed, and that test result data may also have been deduced.

Saudi Arabia’s Council of Ministers has approved a Personal Data Protection Law, which is planned to be implemented within six months. The law, which has yet to be published, will protect personal data that directly or indirectly identifies users from collection and processing without consent.