AT&T Reaches $177M Deal Over 2019 and 2024 Data Breaches
AT&T’s $177M data breach settlement. Check eligibility for payouts from 2019 and 2024 incidents. Get claim details here.
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Taiwan flags security risks in popular Chinese apps after official probe
Taiwan warns Chinese apps like TikTok and WeChat pose security risks due to excessive data collection and data transfers to China. Taiwan National Security Bureau (NSB) warns that Chinese apps like TikTok, WeChat, Weibo, and Baidu Cloud pose security risks due to excessive data collection and data transfer to China, following an official inspection with […]
How Digital Executive Protection Shields Top Leaders from Modern Threats
Cybersecurity threats have emerged so quickly that most companies struggle to keep up and executives are often the…
Google fined $314M for misusing idle Android users’ data
Google must pay $314M after a California court ruled it misused idle Android users’ data. The case ends a class-action suit filed in August 2019. A San Jose jury ruled that Google misused Android users’ cell phone data and must pay over $314.6 million in damages to affected users in California. Google is liable for […]
Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel
Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it:
A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.
The incident was disclosed in a justice department inspector general’s audit of the FBI’s efforts to mitigate the effects of “ubiquitous technical surveillance,” a term used to describe the global proliferation of cameras and the thriving trade in vast stores of communications, travel, and location data…
Verizon and T-Mobile Deny Data Breaches as Millions of User Records Sold Online
User claims to sell stolen Verizon and T-Mobile data for millions of users (online Verizon says data is old T-Mobile denies any breach and links to it.
FBI Warns of Health Insurance Scam Stealing Personal and Medical Data
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about a scam where criminals pretend to be…
GDPR violations prompt Germany to push Google and Apple to ban DeepSeek AI
Germany asked Google and Apple to remove DeepSeek AI from their app stores, citing GDPR violations over unlawful data collection and transfers to China. The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection requested Google and Apple to remove the DeepSeek AI app from their app stores due to GDPR violations. On May 6, 2025, Berlin’s Data Protection Commissioner […]
UK food delivery companies increase checks on illegal workers
Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Just Eat to increase facial verification after ministers raise concernsThe UK’s three largest food delivery companies have announced increased security checks for riders after ministers raised concerns about people working ille…
Facebook wants access to your camera roll for AI photo edits
Facebook asks users to allow “cloud processing” to access phone photos for AI-generated collages and recaps, even if not uploaded. Meta-owned Facebook is prompting users to enable “cloud processing” to access photos from their phones, even those not uploaded. If users opt into “cloud processing,” Facebook will continuously upload media to its servers and use […]