T-Mobile US Offers $350mn Settlement for Data Breach
The mobile operator will also spend another $150mn on upgrading security following a 2021 privacy breach that compromised data relating to 76.6 million people.
UK Government Proposes Heavy Fines for Spam Calls and Texts
But they also want to weaken rules that currently require politicians be held to the same standard as marketeers.
What the Theft of the Verizon Employee Database Tells Us about Security Threats
The telco played down the importance of the breach whilst the hacker mocked ‘idiot’ employees for believing he was from PC support.
Court Slams Data Protection Commission for Siding Against Worker Unlawfully Spied Upon by CCTV
The Irish Data Protection Commission has spent over 6 years fighting legal battles to deny the privacy rights of a hospice worker.
Indian Activist Challenges Police Use of Facial Recognition
The police in Hyderabad want to connect 440,000 CCTV cameras to their facial recognition system.
Hackers Access Mobile Operator’s Billing Records
Compromised data was used to port the accounts of some UScellular customers to other networks.
€225mn Fine for WhatsApp GDPR Failures
Anyone looking beyond the headlines will soon discover that the most severe fine ever levied by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission is also proof of their incompetence.
$888mn GDPR Fine for Amazon May Kill Behavioral Advertising in the EU
Luxembourg’s secretive authorities levied the largest ever data protection fine without telling the complainants they had won.
Six Takeaways from the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2021
Never mind somebody else’s fact-free opinions about data security, because here is the leading source of data about data security.
Strong Black Women in Telecoms Risk: Stella Makona Simiyu
The co-founder and COO of Sentinel Africa Consulting talks about empowering women and the way to think about risk.