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Peekaboo Moments baby-recording app has a bad database booboo

January 15, 2020 0 Comments children online, data breach, data loss, Elasticsearch, online privacy, peekaboo moments, PII, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:05:46 +0000

No need to wait until you’ve gurgled out of your mother’s womb to experience the joys of having your privacy breached.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/s_aas9nhhmI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Lawmakers look to spread COPPA out to cover kids up to 16

January 13, 2020 0 Comments biometrics, children, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Coppa, Google, gps, Law & order, location data, online tracking, PII, Privacy, youtube

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:14:48 +0000

If that bill passes, you can say bye-bye to YouTube, says one content creator.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/fcctp3f85Mc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ad industry groups ask that the CCPA keep its mitts off their cookies

December 11, 2019 0 Comments adchoices, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, Law & order, PII, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:56:06 +0000

Ad-blocking technologies can block the cookies that record consumers’ privacy choices, they claim.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SmRFSPB5ipA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook users were duped by Cambridge Analytica, FTC rules

December 10, 2019 0 Comments 2016 US presidential election, Cambridge Analytica, cubeyou, data loss, eu-u.s. privacy shield, facebook, FTC, Global Science Research, gsr, gsrapp, Law & order, mypersonality, PII, Privacy, privacy shield, psychographic, psychometrics center, Social networks, targeted marketing, thisisyourdigitallife

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:55:38 +0000

Delete the data, and don’t do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/1_W3PpVtWZk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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TikTok settles class action over child privacy one day after it’s filed

December 10, 2019 0 Comments bytedance, child predators, children, children online, children's privacy, china, Coppa, laura lopez, Law & order, Mobile, musical.ly, PII, Privacy, sherri leshore, Social networks, TikTok

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:36:08 +0000

The $1.1m settlement is an “excellent result,” TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it’s dirt cheap.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/AJarV9pQvjA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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US parents file class action against TikTok over children’s privacy

December 6, 2019 0 Comments bytedance, child predators, children, children online, children's privacy, china, Coppa, laura lopez, Law & order, Mobile, musical.ly, PII, Privacy, sherri leshore, Social networks, TikTok

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 12:10:31 +0000

Collecting children’s data without their guardians’ consent is illegal under COPPA and already earned TikTok a huge fine.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/BxgELatt-Vk” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Alleged mastermind behind $20m stolen-card site extradited to US

November 14, 2019 0 Comments aleksei burkov, aleksei yurievich burkov, card shop, carders, carding, cardplanet, data loss, indictment, israel, Law & order, payment cards, PII, russia, security threats

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:44:20 +0000

Aleksei Burkov allegedly ran Cardplanet, advertised as the only shop with a guarantee: your stolen card will work, or you get a new one!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/14J8hDIexN0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Uber sues LA in bid to protect scooter riders’ geolocation data

October 30, 2019 0 Comments bikes, geolocation, ladot, Law & order, location data, PII, Privacy, ride-hailing, scooters, trip data, uber

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:43:41 +0000

The anonymized real-time location data the city’s after can easily be associated with riders, thereby jeopardizing their privacy, Uber says.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/BqXMC-Elu-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Travel database exposed PII on US government employees

October 23, 2019 0 Comments amazon, AWS, best western, best western hotel & resorts group, data breach, data loss, department of homeland security, Elasticsearch, PII, Privacy, security threats

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:32:40 +0000

A property management company owned by hotel chain Best Western has exposed 179 GB of sensitive travel information on thousands of travelers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ya-mCNqAOjw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Twitter used 2FA phone numbers for targeted advertising

October 10, 2019 0 Comments 2-factor Authentication, 2fa, facebook, login verification, PII, Privacy, SMS, social media, Social networks, tailored audiences, twitter

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:44:31 +0000

Twitter may have “inadvertently” handed phone and email data from some users to advertisers as part of its Tailored Audiences system that targets users’ feeds with ads.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/28JZN9DLRbI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>