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T-Mobile breached again
Most Americans have stopped keeping count but this will be the fifth or sixth data breach for T-Mobile, the second largest mobile service network in the United States. In case you’ve forgotten or gotten it confused with the 12 other breaches you may have been a part of recently, the previous T-Mobile breach included PII
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Privacy should be free but it’s not
For the dwindling few of my clients who had any energy left to be outraged at something, a recent article from Forbes highlighting Google’s rather blatant disregard for user privacy energized at least a handful of them to delete the Gmail app from their iPhones. For the rest of you who haven’t encountered this story
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Know your exits
It’s become abundantly clear from how we handled the pandemic that humans, as a general rule, aren’t very good at planning for, and dealing with, unexpected scenarios, especially if it is something that they don’t believe can happen to them. Life insurance agents will tell you this, and as a guy who’s spent the past
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Amazon Throws Ring Users a Privacy Bone
Hot on the heels of a moderate backlash on their Sidewalk initiative, Amazon has decided that maybe Ring doorbells should be a little more considerate of your privacy. Up until today, if you had subscribe to the Ring Protect Plan which provided a means for you to store history of your Ring camera’s footage in
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700M LinkedIn records for sale on Dark Web
Reports are now popping up in my technology news feed that a database containing information from over 700 million LinkedIn members is now available for purchase on the dark web. Unlike some of the other information dumps that have made headlines recently, this one doesn’t contain passwords or other sensitive information, but it does contain
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Should you disable Amazon Sidewalk?
Amazon announced its controversial “Sidewalk” platform nearly two years ago, but most of you probably missed the announcement and the uproar it caused as we were consequently distracted by the mother of all distractions in 2020. Now that we are all starting to stumble into the daylight like hermits emerging from a cave, Amazon is
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