In Brief: Home Depot pays $17M in 46 states for breach
40M people had card data hacked; new safeguards added.
40M people had card data hacked; new safeguards added.
Consumer data collected, retained, not reported.
Facebook upsets Asia x2 South Korea’s privacy watchdog reported that Facebook shared 3.3M users’ PII with, possibly, as many as 10,000 companies. Vietnam’s government is considering shutting Facebook down if it doesn’t comply with its request to increase censorship of anti-state political posts. Read More – South Korea Read More – Vietnam
The economy may be sputtering (or not), but funds are flowing more freely for martech and adtech acquisitions. Video platform Vimeo has just agreed to be acquired for $1.38 billion in cash. The buyer is Bending Spoons, a Milan-based mobile app developer.