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Most EU cookie ‘consent’ notices are meaningless or manipulative, study finds – TechCrunch

New research into how European consumers interact with the cookie consent mechanisms which have proliferated since a major update to…

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Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation

After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook…

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Microsoft Adds 2FA-Protected “Personal Vault” Within OneDrive Cloud Storage

Microsoft has introduced a new password-protected folder within its OneDrive online file storage service that will allow you to keep…

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Behavioural advertising is out of control, warns UK watchdog – TechCrunch

The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling internet users. That’s the damning assessment of the U.K.’s data protection regulator…

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MongoDB 4.2 Introduces End-to-End Field Level Encryption for Databases

At its developer conference held earlier this week in New York, the MongoDB team announced the latest version of its…

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In brief: Grab fined for leaking customer data in marketing emails

GrabCar found that the incident was caused by the erroneous assembly of customer information from different database tables. Source link

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Quest Diagnostics says 11.9 million credit cards and medical records skimmed by hackers – TechCrunch

Medical testing giant Quest Diagnostics has confirmed a third-party billing company has been hit by a data breach affecting 11.9…

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Core Elastic Stack Security Features Now Available For Free Users As Well

Elastic, the company behind the most widely used enterprise search engine ElasticSearch and the Elastic Stack, today announced that it…

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After breach, Stack Overflow says some user data exposed – TechCrunch

After disclosing a breach earlier this week, Stack Overflow has confirmed some user data was accessed. In case you missed…

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Hacker Breaks Into Stack Overflow Q&A Site, No Evidence of Data Breach

Stack Overflow, one of the largest question and answer site for programmers, revealed today that an unknown hacker(s) managed to…