"fingerprints of over 1 million people, as well as facial recognition information, unencrypted usernames and passwords, and personal information of employees, was discovered on a publicly accessible database"
h/t @RainDogDancehttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/14/major-breach-found-in-biometrics-system-used-by-banks-uk-police-and-defence-firms …
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"Don't collect what you can't protect!" my usual mantra on
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I'd add "and you often can't protect it, so you probably shouldn't collect it."
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:)) exactly here's a proof that even largest companies and government agencies with sufficient security budgets don't have enough power to protect user's data:https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/worlds-biggest-data-breaches-hacks/ …
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Thanks for that link Alena - the visualisation is beautiful & horrific. Yet, out of all of these, the number of companies responsible for the damage to their customers' privacy remains ZERO. Once organisations are liable for the breach *impact*, then behaviours may change.
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Unlikely to happen. Governments profit from adtech and data breaches. They DO WANT companies to harvest as much data as possible and share with gov, they do want hackers leaking foreign citizen info, and they do want the multi-billion fines as they can't easily tax Google or FB.
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Totally agree: The "fines" aren't used to make the breached whole again; the fines disappear into consolidated revenue. Even with this breach, Suprema are talking about concern for their *customers* - not the individuals' whose data has been irretrievably leaked
End of conversation
New conversation -
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Also, on the opposite side "it's not yours if it's been collected".
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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