Everyone should be interested in a recent Blind Spot Report which was created because of the “demand for accountability in respect to privacy protection is growing, and security professionals are finding themselves in part responsible for this issue.” The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) issued a report entitled “…
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Verizon’s 2015 Data Breach Investigations Report identified that the legal, communications, and customer service departments “were far more likely to actually open an e-mail than all other departments.” My blog entitled “Phishing and Malware Cyberattacks are Directed at Law Firms (and Clients) – So it’s Time to Train…
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Google is fighting a June 2015 order from the French CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés) that ordered Google to “delist links not just from all European versions of Search but also from all versions globally.” Google’s Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer blogged on July 30, 2015 about…
In July 2011 UCLA Health settled HIPAA violations, paid a fine of $865,000, and “committed to a corrective action plan aimed at remedying gaps in its compliance with the rules,” but they were not prepared for a 2014 cyberattack because of July 17, 2015 UCLA issued a press release…
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A court ruled that there is no privacy to people who make “butt calls” and particularly when the party making the “butt call” admitted “that he was aware of the risk of making inadvertent pocket-dial calls and had previously made such calls on his cellphone.” On July 21, 2015 the…
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Android users lost their lawsuit claiming that Google “violated its own privacy policy by disclosing their names, email addresses and account locations to third parties without permission, to boost advertising revenue” according to Reuters. On July 15, 2015 US Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal (Northern District of California) in the…
According to the Washington Post United Airlines “had rewarded two people with 1 million free miles of air travel each for discovering and disclosing software defects through the airlines “bug bounty” program…. so named because it offers bounties for the detection of software defects — is the first of its…
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Booksellers and authors demanded the DOJ (Department of Justice) investigate that “Amazon has used its dominance in ways that we believe harm the interests of America’s readers, impoverish the book industry as a whole, damage the careers of (and generate fear among) many authors, and impede the free flow of…
Free speech is not the law in Singapore where a 16 year old blogger was just released after 50 days in prison for “criticizing Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore” according to a recent New York Times article. On July 3, 2015 Amnesty International issued a demand…
Commissioner Michael O’Rielly (Federal Communication Commission – FCC) has been criticized for “commingling of the words “necessity” and “basic human right.”” Infoworld’s recent article “Do we really need the Internet?” about the June 25, 2015 speech of FCC Commissioner O’Rielly to the Internet Innovation Alliance entitled “What…
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