You may not realize that when you post something online, the world is watching. Check out the 'About this tool' section at: http://www.weknowwhatyouredoing.com/ … [Read more...] about We know what you’re doing . . .
Authorities are investigating a missing unencrypted laptop containing personal information of 596 patients from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School. School officials discovered the missing laptop August 2 from a locked closet in a University of Texas Physicians orthopedic clinic. Source: … [Read more...] about UTHealth loses computer with patient info
The Boston Public Schools is changing the design of Boston OneCard student ID badges, changing MBTA CharlieCard assignments and is changing library card numbers for students following a vendor’s loss of a flash drive that contained badge sticker images Friday afternoon. The vendor, Northborough-based Plastic Card Systems, is contracted to create OneCard ID badges for the … [Read more...] about Lost USB drive compromises data of 20,000 students
Safe Shepherd is a company that searches the web for all the public records available on Americans, and then presents them in a dashboard. Try it for yourself—it’s free—and the results are almost guaranteed to be unnerving. The information is mostly innocuous, and includes your address, phone number and email, but the fact that it’s public is more than enough to create a … [Read more...] about There are 12.5 unprotected versions of the average American’s personal information on the web
Facebook quickly fixed a privacy leak in its new timeline after being alerted to the problem, according to a watchdog that follows the social-networking site closely. Europe v. Facebook, an Austrian student organization that has filed complaints in Europe over Facebook's privacy practices, said it found the redesign allowed "friends of friends" to see all of the events a user … [Read more...] about Facebook Quickly Fixes Privacy Leak in New Timeline