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Categories: News Categories: Personal Tags: FTC Tags: privacy Tags: retroactive Tags: DNA. testing Tags: sample Tags: retain Tags: data Tags: unsecured Tags: charge The FTC is going head to head with a DNA testing startup which left consumer data unsecured on Amazon buckets. |
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Read MoreCategories: Personal Tags: Microsoft Tags: Xbox Tags: privacy Tags: children Tags: COPPA Tags: FTC Tags: fine Tags: settlement Tags: games console Tags: gaming Tags: video games Microsoft is counting the cost of privacy violations, with $20m in fines related to illegal data collection from children’s Xbox accounts. |
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Read MoreCategories: News Tags: ftc Tags: tech support scam Tags: scammers Tags: payment processor Tags: fine Tags: visa Tags: chargeback We take a look at a story involving the FTC going head to head with a payment processor caught up in tech support scam allegations. |
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Read MoreCategories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: Kochava Tags: FTC Tags: sensitive locations Tags: data broker The FTC has filed a complaint against data broker Kochava for selling sensitive location data. |
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Read MoreCategories: News Tags: Twitter Tags: Zatko Tags: Mudge Tags: L0pht Tags: Cult of the dead cow Tags: Infrastructure Tags: bots Tags: Elon Musk Tags: FTC Tags: SEC Tags: whistleblower Former Twitter head of security and ethical hacker Peiter Mudge Zatko has alleged some serious problems about the social media giant. |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:44:16 +0000
The 2016 Uber data breach affected the personal information of 57 million people. And then the company covered it all up.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:55:11 +0000
The FTC will keep an eye on companies that mishandle and misuse data to protect reproductive healthcare data in post-Roe America.
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:15:24 +0000
The FTC has issued a warning to the LGBTQ+ community about extortionists posing as potential romantic partners on Grindr and Feeld.
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