All posts tagged with personal data
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-(Natural News) The internet gives access to virtually limitless information, with it anything you may want to learn is at your fingertips. However, access to the internet is a double-edged sword. Simply being online can expose your personal data not just to big businesses but also to people who may not have the best intentions for your data in mind. Going online means that […]
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-(Natural News) If you thought the massive increase in registration and tax fees at California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) was upsetting, you’ll be incensed to learn that the CA DMV is also selling drivers’ personal information to third parties for upwards of $50 million per year. According to an investigation by Motherboard (VICE), the […]
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-(Natural News) There’s really no good reason why Facebook executives like Mark Zuckerberg aren’t in prison, let alone why Facebook still even exists. Nevertheless, they’re all still roaming free, and the platform still operates, with Facebook’s day-to-day functionality apparently now including a collection of audio recordings taken from users without their knowledge or consent. That’s […]
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-(Natural News) If being subjected to radiation and groped at the airport wasn’t enough, now airline passengers will be monitored in their seats by CCTV cameras that can randomly take pictures of you, watch you eat, and pick your nose. In Hong Kong, individual camera screens are being installed in every headrest, glaring at each […]
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-(Natural News) Social media’s privacy settings are an illusion: Anything you upload on the internet is far from private. Even your medical history, which is considered one of the most sensitive personal information, may be shared by many common health apps with third parties, according to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal […]
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-(Natural News) Facebook is under fire yet again — and this time, it’s for leaving hundreds of millions of user passwords unprotected. Security researcher Brian Krebs reports that a company oversight left up to 600 million exposed because they were stored in plain text. Leaving the passwords in plain text format means that the information […]
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-(Natural News) Another day, another massive hack of personal data, thanks to the ongoing war against privacy and large corporations’ inability to protect our digitized information. As reported by Zero Hedge, the latest hack of 100 million customers of Capital One was allegedly committed by a transgender male named “Paige Thompson,” 33, a former Amazon […]
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-(Natural News) There has been tremendous hub-bub about the rolling out of 5g, with many concerns about the potential health effects of bathing the world’s population in electromagnetic radiation. Now, experts warn that there are other major safety concerns about 4g and 5g networks — namely, security. As it turns out, these networks have three […]
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-(Natural News) At least eleven popular apps are working with Facebook to harvest your highly sensitive personal information. According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, this has been occurring covertly, without user consent. It has been happening to people who do not even have a Facebook account. According to the investigation, Facebook is gathering information […]
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Electronic medical records fail again, as 12 million patient records at Quest Diagnostics get hacked
-(Natural News) Another major data breach has once again demonstrated that the widespread adoption of digital records storage systems has made patient privacy more vulnerable than ever before. This time it involves patients who have gotten blood tests through Quest Diagnostics, where nearly 12 million patient records were recently hacked, according to reports. One of […]
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