Two Charged With Terrorism Over Bulgaria’s Biggest Data Breach: Lawyer Prosecutors have charged two workers at a cyber security company with terrorism as part of an investigation into Bulgaria’s biggest-ever data breach, a lawyer for the defendants said on Wednesday. Read More…
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Calls Mount to Ease Big Tech’s Grip on Your Data The wealth of some tech giants is built on harvesting and commercializing personal data. Advocates for a new deal on data are gaining momentum. Read More…
Read moreWill UK PM Johnson Bring ‘First Girlfriend’ Into No.10? When Boris Johnson entered the famous black door of No. 10 Downing Street as Britain’s new prime minister, he was the first for nearly half a century to do so unaccompanied by a spouse. Read More…
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Facebook Agrees to Extensive New Oversight as Part of $5 Billion Settlement The F.T.C. placed new conditions on Facebook for privacy violations, but did not restrict the social network’s ability to gather and use people’s personal information. Read More…
Read moreEquifax’s $700 Million Data Breach Settlement Spurs Criticism, Calls for New Rules Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc will pay up to $700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a massive 2017 data breach and to repay harmed consumers, in a landmark settlement that was nonetheless criticized by consumer advocates and … Read More…
Read moreFactbox: Biggest U.S. Data Breach Settlements Before Equifax The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced on Monday that Equifax Inc. will pay up to $700 million for a data breach that exposed millions of consumers’ personal information. Read More…
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Equifax to Pay at Least $650 Million in Largest-Ever Data Breach Settlement The agreement, which received preliminary approval Monday, would end an array of lawsuits and investigations stemming from the exposure of the sensitive information of more than 147 million people. Read More…
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Equifax Data-Breach Settlement: Get Up to $20,000 If You Can Prove Harm Equifax said it had exposed the data of almost 150 million people in 2017. Now it will pay at least $650 million to settle claims relating to the data breach. Read More…
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Suspected Gunman Will Be ‘Nameless,’ New Zealand’s Prime Minister Says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in Parliament on Tuesday that she refused to give notoriety to the man accused of killing 50 people in Christchurch, New Zealand. Ms. Ardern has implored news media and social media sites like Facebook to do a be… Read More…
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An Eye for Photography, but a Google Suite for Events She was a photo editor. Now she’s an events manager. Whitney Richardson discusses how her career shift at The Times has changed her tech habits. Read More…
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