How Postal Code Data Impacts Cybersecurity, Privacy and Fraud Prevention
Postal codes now play a key role in cybersecurity, fraud prevention, and digital identity verification, raising new concerns…
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Milwaukee Police Consider Trading Millions of Mugshots For Free Facial Recognition Access
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee police are mulling a trade: 2.5 million mugshots for free use of facial recognition technology. Officials from the Milwaukee Police Department say swapping the photos with t…
Windscribe Acquitted on Charges of Not Collecting Users’ Data
The company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data:
Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by a court in Athens, Greece, following a two-year legal battle in which Sak was personally charged in connection with an alleged internet offence by an unknown user of the service.
The case centred around a Windscribe-owned server in Finland that was allegedly used to breach a system in Greece. Greek authorities, in cooperation with INTERPOL, traced the IP address to Windscribe’s infrastructure and, unlike standard international procedures, proceeded to initiate criminal proceedings against Sak himself, rather than pursuing information through standard corporate channels…
Interlock Ransomware Say It Stole 20TB of DaVita Healthcare Data
Interlock ransomware group claims it stole 20TB of sensitive patient data from DaVita Healthcare. While the group has…
Employee Monitoring App Leaks 21 Million Screenshots In Real Time
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cybernews: Researchers at Cybernews have uncovered a major privacy breach involving WorkComposer, a workplace surveillance app used by over 200,000 people across countless companies. The app, designed to track p…
Blue Shield Leaked Millions of Patient Info to Google for Years
Blue Shield of California disclosed a major data breach, revealing that the private health information of 4.7 million…
WhatsApp introduces Advanced Chat Privacy to protect sensitive communications
WhatsApp adds Advanced Chat Privacy feature that allows users to block others from sharing chat content outside the app. WhatsApp announced the availability of a new feature called “Advanced Chat Privacy” for both individual and group chats that enhances content protection. The feature blocks chat exports, auto-media downloads, and the use of messages in AI […]
WhatsApp Blocks People From Exporting Your Entire Chat History
WhatsApp is rolling out a new “Advanced Chat Privacy” feature that blocks others from exporting chat histories or automatically downloading media. While it doesn’t stop screenshots or manual downloads, it marks the first step in WhatsApp’s plan to enha…
Lattica Emerges from Stealth to Solve AI’s Biggest Privacy Challenge with FHE
Lattica’s cloud-based solution uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption to query encrypted data on AI models without decrypting it, preserving privacy and bolstering security.
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A judge in Nevada has ruled that “tower dumps” — the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers — is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the c…