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* '''{{End date and age|2021|6|17|df=yes}}''' - [[w:CVS Pharmacy|CVS Pharmacy]] exposes health records of 1.1 billion customers. <sup>[[https://threatpost.com/cvs-health-records-billion-customers-exposed/167011/ Threatpost]]</sup> |
* '''{{End date and age|2021|6|17|df=yes}}''' - [[w:CVS Pharmacy|CVS Pharmacy]] exposes health records of 1.1 billion customers. <sup>[[https://threatpost.com/cvs-health-records-billion-customers-exposed/167011/ Threatpost]]</sup> |
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* '''{{End date and age|2021|6|17|df=yes}}''' - [[w:Carnival Cruise|Carnival Cruise]], after getting hit by ransomware twice in one year, exposes data of guests, employees, and crew in an email hack. <sup>[[https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/carnival-cruise-hit-by-data-breach-warns-of-data-misuse-risk/ BleepingComputer]]</sup> <sup><sup>As if cruise industry was not [https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-05/the-problem-with-cruise-ships/11174110 awful enough...]</sup></sup> |
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* '''{{End date and age|2021|6|14|df=yes}}''' - [[w:Irish government|Irish government]] is expected to unveil [[w:new laws|new laws]] criminalising refusal to provide a password when executing a search warrant. Exercising your human right to privacy may result in up to 5 years in prison.<br> It is not clear yet whether Irish government understand that hardened criminals will rather take 5 years over a more serious conviction and only victims of this will be law abiding citizens. <sup>[[https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2021/0613/1227901-garda-powers/ RTE.ie]]</sup> |
* '''{{End date and age|2021|6|14|df=yes}}''' - [[w:Irish government|Irish government]] is expected to unveil [[w:new laws|new laws]] criminalising refusal to provide a password when executing a search warrant. Exercising your human right to privacy may result in up to 5 years in prison.<br> It is not clear yet whether Irish government understand that hardened criminals will rather take 5 years over a more serious conviction and only victims of this will be law abiding citizens. <sup>[[https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2021/0613/1227901-garda-powers/ RTE.ie]]</sup> |
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* '''{{End date and age|2021|6|14|df=yes}}''' - Reports suggests that open source end-to-end encrypted Matrix protocol has become the backbone of French goverments's instant communications network, <sup>[[https://www.wired.co.uk/article/matrix-encrypted-messaging-app-governments WIRED]]</sup> |
* '''{{End date and age|2021|6|14|df=yes}}''' - Reports suggests that open source end-to-end encrypted Matrix protocol has become the backbone of French goverments's instant communications network, <sup>[[https://www.wired.co.uk/article/matrix-encrypted-messaging-app-governments WIRED]]</sup> |
Revision as of 17:41, 17 June 2021
- 17 June 2021CVS Pharmacy exposes health records of 1.1 billion customers. [Threatpost] -
- 17 June 2021Carnival Cruise, after getting hit by ransomware twice in one year, exposes data of guests, employees, and crew in an email hack. [BleepingComputer] As if cruise industry was not awful enough... -
- 14 June 2021Irish government is expected to unveil new laws criminalising refusal to provide a password when executing a search warrant. Exercising your human right to privacy may result in up to 5 years in prison.
It is not clear yet whether Irish government understand that hardened criminals will rather take 5 years over a more serious conviction and only victims of this will be law abiding citizens. [RTE.ie]
- - 14 June 2021WIRED] - Reports suggests that open source end-to-end encrypted Matrix protocol has become the backbone of French goverments's instant communications network, [
- 11 June 2021Volkswagen discloses a data breach impacting 3.6 million customers' records in North America, including 90 thousand customers' sensitive financial records. [Reuters] -
- 10 June 2021US DOJ shuts down the largest market trading in stolen login credentials. [BleepingComputer] -
- 6 June 2021Apple pays out millions after its repair tech posted customer's explicit photos online (in 2016, no less). [The Telegraph] -
- 6 June 2021Opt out instructions. [The Guardian] - Doctors in UK rally against government's plan to sell health data to third parties through NHS Digital.
- 4 June 2021EURACTIV] - Germany ponders use of state-sponsored malware against anyone, wanting to deputise service providers to serve their customers malware, even when they're not suspected of a crime. [
- 31 May 2021None of Your Business (NOYB) unleashes a wave of 500 complaint against websites which do not comply with GDPR in regards to how they present their cookie banners. [NOYB] - Privacy-promoting non-profit
- 1 June 2021Facebook funded study finds that new iOS privacy controls are bad for you. 😲 [University of Florida via PocketNow] - A
- 30 May 2021Google intentionally hid privacy controls behind dark patterns. [AndroidPolice] - Court documents show that
- 25 May 2021European Court of Human Rights rules against UK's spy agency GCHQ in a lawsuit based on Edward Snowden leaks. ECHR says that GCHQ must implement 'meaningful safeguards' to protect the individuals who are not subject to its investigations. [The Guardian] -
- 24 May 2021A German court rules that the encrypted email provider must monitor the email of two users involved in a blackmail case. [Cyberscoop] -