December 6, 2024 at 07:08AM Atrium Health has reported a data breach affecting over 585,000 individuals, linked to online tracking technologies used on its patient portal from 2015 to 2019. Potentially exposed data includes personal information, but not financial details or Social Security numbers. This follows another incident involving compromised employee emails earlier this year. … Read more
September 25, 2024 at 10:21AM Vienna-based privacy non-profit, noyb, filed a complaint against Mozilla for enabling a new feature, Privacy Preserving Attribution (PPA), in Firefox without users’ explicit consent. PPA tracks user behavior on websites, leading to concerns about privacy violations and alleged similarities to Google’s Privacy Sandbox project. Noyb asserts that enabling PPA by … Read more
February 23, 2024 at 12:15PM The FTC fined Avast $16.5 million for allegedly selling consumer browsing data to third parties through its subsidiaries, despite claiming to protect users’ privacy. The FTC accused Avast of collecting and storing browsing data without consent, then selling it to over 100 third parties. Avast is now required to compensate … Read more
February 22, 2024 at 10:39PM The U.S. Federal Trade Commission fined antivirus vendor Avast $16.5 million for selling users’ browsing data to advertisers despite claiming to block online tracking. Avast is banned from selling web browsing data for advertising and must notify affected users. Misleading privacy practices led to public backlash and the termination of … Read more
January 2, 2024 at 05:36AM Google settled a lawsuit filed in June 2020, alleging that the company misled users by tracking their online activity in “incognito” or “private” mode on web browsers. The class-action lawsuit sought at least $5 billion in damages, accusing Google of violating federal wiretap laws by collecting data without explicit user … Read more