Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Here is an interesting article about privacy, looking at how LinkedIn (Microsoft) loosely interpreted its privacy policies so it could experiment on twenty million users: Experts debate the ethics of LinkedIn’s algorithm experiments on 20M users | Ars Technica
I am a user of the Tor browser – it was built for privacy, especially useful for politicians, journalists and activists – which is why the US Government has a hand in its development. There are now reports that a rogue Tor browser was distributed to Chinese users which did …
The Canadian based Citizen Lab has released a report about the use of the Pegasus spyware in Mexico: New Pegasus Spyware Abuses Identified in Mexico – The Citizen Lab Each time one of these well researched reports is published it seems to make the claims that these cyber weapon producing …
I started writing about this hack on 27 September 2022 Update 29 September 2022 Here is the take from the BBC: Optus: How a massive data breach has exposed Australia – BBC News Update 28 September 2022 This is becoming a very odd story – millions of bit of personal …
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If you force all of your users to register to use the device or features, they have purchased and as part of that compulsory registration you collect sensitive and personally identifiable information – then make sure your cyber security is up to the job of protecting this information. Samsung is …
I have listened to many businesses complain about the UKGDPR legislation – particularly web designers and marketing companies – many citing that users do not like it (of course it has nothing to do with how they now have to look after personally identifiable information properly and justify their use …
I have reported previously on India’s new laws that will weaken the privacy offered to users of VPN technology: The new laws require the VPN vendors to record identifiable information about the users, and then make that information available to organisations authorised by the government, so effectively removing privacy from …
