GAO’s data breach list from its June 2007 report: FOIA result
Data breach | GAO data breach study – The World Privacy Forum made an information request to the GAO asking for a copy of the single, non-duplicative list of data breaches its June, 2007 data breach...
View ArticleCalifornia Health Information Identification data base California CHILI...
Resource — A substantial new resource for individuals seeking to research California laws and regulations regarding health information has come online. The CHILI database is a project of the California...
View ArticleFacebook, MySpace, Xing receive warning letters from EU consumer group
Social networks – In the wake of Europe’s Article 29 Working Party Opinion on Social Network Providers adopted in June, the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZBV) has sent out warning...
View ArticleWPF is signatory to the Madrid Declaration; global privacy standards for a...
Madrid Declaration – A significant civil society document with more than 100 signatories worldwide has been published in conjunction with the 31st annual meeting of the International Conference of...
View ArticleFTC starts sending out checks to LifeLock victims
LifeLock — The Federal Trade Commission began sending checks to almost a million consumers who were subscribers to the LifeLock ID theft protection service. LifeLock agreed to pay fines of $11 million...
View ArticleCompanies overriding Safari browser privacy settings
Online privacy | Apple privacy – Stanford University has released a study documenting how companies overrode Safari users’ browser privacy settings. The WPF encourages Apple users to download the...
View ArticlePam Dixon writes about India’s National ID Card in May/June issue of Foreign...
India’s national biometric ID card – In the May/June, 2013 issue of Foreign Policy Magazine, Pam Dixon writes about the privacy issues related to India’s national biometric ID card. In the piece,...
View ArticleCalifornia issues first statewide breach report
Data breach — The state of California issues a first-ever statewide data breach report. In 2012, 2.5 million Californians had their data breached. Of those breached, the study found that “1.4 million...
View ArticleHow unique are you?
How unique are you? We played with a data privacy tool today here at WPF that showed us if the combination of our birthdate and zip code made us statistically unique. The more unique you are, the...
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