The Italian Competition Authority, Autorita Garante Della Concorrenza E Del Mercato (AGCM), has fined Facebook Ireland Ltd. and Facebook Inc. €7 million for not complying with an order issued in November 2018. Facebook was not informing their users regarding the …
Google threatened pull its Search function from Australia if the News Media Bargaining Code is passed.
The UK National Police Chiefs’ Council reported that 213,000 criminal records were accidentally deleted.
Private user data from the web version of Whatsapp has been indexed by Google due to a missing tag.
Israel-based research lab The Safety Detective reported that Chinese social media management company Socialarks was breached and has lead to the leak of 400GB of personal data.
Amazon and Swiggy had 100 million debit and credit cardholders’ information leaked after its payments partner Juspay was breached.
Singaporean law enforcers have the ability to access the country’s COVID-19 contact tracing data in order to help with their criminal investigations.
A vulnerability was discovered in Google Docs that allowed malicious actors to steal screenshots of other people’s documents by embedding them into a malicious site
The Government has proposed an Online Safety Bill that delegates new and strengthened powers for the eSafety Commissioner to make sure that Australians are safe online.
Al-Jazeera reported that their staff and journalists were targeted using Israel-based NSO Group software this year.