Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 7, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of August 7th, 2020 The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach The recent ransomware attack on GPS company Garmin highlights that the only thing standing between a ransomware attack and a large-scale privacy breach is really just the hacker’s whims. Garmin has GPS location … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: August 7, 2020”

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Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: July 31, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of July 31st, 2020 Top EU court sinks main framework for sending personal data across the Atlantic The Privacy Shield framework, which allowed the large companies like Facebook to send data from Europe to the United States, has been ruled invalid by the Court of Justice. The Court of … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: July 31, 2020”

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  • Jul 29, 2020
  • Caleb Chen
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach

Garmin recently suffered a ransomware attack that crippled services for days. The ransomware attack could have been a cover for a more targeted attack on individuals around the world. This wouldn’t be the first time that a more public facing hack ends up being a smokescreen for a more targeted attack. In the recent Twitter … Continue reading “The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach”

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  • Mar 2, 2019
  • Glyn Moody
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

After the quantified self, the quantified employee; but what about privacy?

Back in 2017, Privacy News Online wrote about workplace surveillance. The systems described were all based on monitoring how employees were using company technology. They noted every email sent and received, tracking both sides of instant messaging applications, recording social networking activity, storing online searches and which Web sites are visited. But technology has moved … Continue reading “After the quantified self, the quantified employee; but what about privacy?”

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