Archive for November, 2018
French president Macron insists new regulations needed to protect us all from Facebook’s claws
Nov 13th
Canada Post leaked personal data, orders of thousands of cannabis smokers
Nov 8th
Editor’s Note: Shades of Ashley Madison?
From: ZDNet
The rollout of legal weed in Ontario is now beset by potential privacy issues.
By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day
On Wednesday, the Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) revealed the security incident on Twitter, saying that an unnamed individual was able to access the order records of 4,500 customers, or roughly two percent of the firm’s customer base.
The compromised information included names or the initials of nominated signatories, postcodes, dates of delivery, OCS reference numbers, Canada Post tracking numbers, and OCS corporate names and business addresses.
New privacy rules will force Canadian companies to disclose data breaches
Nov 1st
From: CBC
Experts say rules don’t go far enough
New privacy rules designed to better safeguard the personal data of Canadians and let them know when it has been breached kick in Thursday, but even security experts say they are far from perfect.
The legislation, known as the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (or PIPEDA) does a lot of things, but most importantly from a consumer’s perspective, it requires Canadian companies to alert their customers any time their personal information may have fallen into the wrong hands.