Recently a company you’ve never heard of and certainly didn’t give any kind of consent to store your personal data was hacked. It really is the worst possible type of hack that involved a data-broker happy to profit from collecting our data but not bothered enough to keep it secure. Continue reading Your Identity and Future is at risk, act now!
I don’t know enough about the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but at least on basic reading it seems inadequate in meaningful individual action requirements and legislation that benefits the actual user/person whose information has been exposed. I’ve been signed up for haveibeenpwned an excellent website by Troy Hunt. You enter your email, and it tells you what breaches your personal information has been found in. I was going to say “if any”. But of course your data will be there, especially after breaches like the River City Media (RCM) “spammer gate” where 1.4 billion peoples’ email accounts, … Continue reading Legislating hacking/data exposure responses