Meta has been fined roughly $275 million by Ireland’s data privacy regulator for failing to prevent hackers from siphoning off personal information from more than 500 million Facebook users in a 2019 data leak.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles, out of an abundance of caution, is notifying customers that a company it uses to verify vehicle registration addresses has had a security breach. DMV systems have not been compromised and it is unknown if DMV data shared with the company has been compromised. An investigation is underway. Automatic […]
Doctors throughout the Coachella Valley shared the latest COVID-19 information. “Our numbers are still growing, so we haven’t reached our peak, nor have we plateaued. We need to consider if this is the right time or not to remove the precautions,” said Congressman Raul Ruiz of the 36th district. Eisenhower Health, JFK Memorial and Desert […]
Your data may soon be on tap at bars around the country, some nightclubs are starting to require a scan of the customer’s I.D. before going in as a safety measure but some see it as an invasion of privacy. The device is called ‘Patronscan’, and Moxie Palm Springs is one of the first businesses […]
California is embarking on a new era of privacy on the internet, and Xavier Becerra can’t stop thinking about the failed debut of Obamacare. Back in 2013, Becerra, then a Democratic congressman from Los Angeles, watched as technical problems with the website marred the rollout of President Barack Obama’s signature law, delaying sign-ups for health insurance and […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network’s power and control competitors by treating its users’ data as a bargaining chip, while publicly proclaiming to be protecting that data, according to about 4,000 pages of leaked company documents largely spanning 2011 to 2015 and obtained by NBC News. The documents, which include emails, […]
Google — which a year ago vowed to clamp down on Gmail users’ privacy — has reportedly been letting outside app developers scan millions of inboxes, according to a Wall Street Journal examination. Despite the promise from Google last June to stop scanning Gmail messages for the purpose of selling targeted ads, the tech giant has been allowing […]
