Catalin Cimpanu reports: Facebook filed today a federal lawsuit in a California court against OneAudience, a New Jersey-based data analytics firm. The social networking giant claims that OneAudience paid app developers to install its Software Development Kit (SDK) in their apps, and later used the control it had over the SDK’s code to harvest data…
Month: February 2020
Thailand Personal Data Protection Law
Tassanai Kiratisountorn, Pimchanok Eianleng, Anna Gamvros, and Ruby Kwok of Norton Rose Fulbright write: The Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (PDPA) was published on 27 May 2019 in Thailand’s Government Gazette and became effective the following day. However, most of the operational provisions, including provisions relating to the rights of a data subject,…
FCC to propose fines for U.S. cellphone carriers over consumer data disclosures
David Shepardson reports: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is set to propose fining four major U.S. mobile phone companies at least $200 million in total for improperly disclosing some consumer real-time location data, two people briefed on the matter said on Thursday. The FCC is expected to announce the proposed fines on AT&T Inc, Verizon…
Heads up: Don’t fall for these “love letters” from a secret lover
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Security researchers have spotted an ongoing malspam campaign using emails disguised as messages from secret lovers to deliver Nemty Ransomware payloads on the computers of potential victims. […] The attackers use several subject lines that hint at the contents of the email being sent by someone the recipient already knows and are…