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Sweden fines Miljödata $183,000 over breach affecting 2.2 million

Sweden's data privacy regulator, IMY, has imposed a $183,000 (SEK 1.8 million) fine on IT systems provider Miljödata for inadequate security measures leading to a breach in August 2025 affecting 2.2 million people.

3 min read 2 views Sep 22
Privacy

IDrive Secures Educational Data with Cloud-to-Cloud Data Protection for Academic Institutions

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IDrive, a leading provider of cloud backup and storage solutions, extends its cloud-to-cloud data protection offerings for educational institutions with Google Workspace Backup and Google Classroom, helping schools,

1 min read 2 views Sep 22
Privacy

Some cheap smart glasses are a security disaster

Apart from the privacy concerns around smart glasses, researchers have found that some cheap brands come with barely any security at all. ABC Australia reports that researchers from NSB Cyber and Ab

1 min read 2 views Sep 22
Privacy

Well-done hack flames 3.2M Burger King Russia users

Russian Burger King patrons have been left with a bad taste after cyber crooks flame-broiled 3.2 million customers in a whopper of a breach, serving up their personal data for anyone hungry enough to

1 min read 2 views Sep 22
Privacy

3 No-Brainer Cybersecurity Stocks to Buy With $1,000 Right Now

If you click 'Accept all', we and our partners, including 254 who are part of the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework, will also store and / or access information on a device (in other words, us

1 min read 2 views Sep 22
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Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data

Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google's lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company t

1 min read 4 views Sep 21
Privacy

Google fined $462M in Ireland over location data collection practices

Ireland’s privacy watchdog today fined Google LLC €403 million, or about $462 million, for collecting users’ location data in breach of GDPR. The tracking was done by three Google features: Web & App Activity, Timeline and GLA. Web & App Activity is a Google

1 min read 2 views Sep 21
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Google Hit With $463 Million Fine for EU Location Data Rule Breach

Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because it mishandled users’ location data.

1 min read 4 views Sep 21
Privacy

How to use public Wi-Fi safely on your Mac

Learn about the security and privacy risks associated with public networks, and how you can keep your Mac safe when using free Wi-Fi hotspots.

1 min read 2 views Sep 21
Privacy

Google fined €403 million over location data privacy violations

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million ($463M) for multiple GDPR violations related to processing users' location data.

4 min read 4 views Sep 21
Privacy

10 Years of Opera VPN: a decade of built-in privacy

We’ve had a free VPN built into the browser since 2016. It doesn’t ask you for an account, it doesn’t have a bandwidth limit, and it doesn’t cost anything. We did it that way because we believe that you should be in control of the way you see and reach the we

1 min read 2 views Sep 21
Privacy

Chinese-made cameras banned from government buildings show up in EVs

Just a year after hundreds of Chinese CCTV cameras were removed from federal government buildings over surveillance fears, cameras from the same company were back in Australia via a new brand of elec

1 min read 2 views Sep 21

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