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Published: June 10, 2022
TalPoint Weekly Wrap Up 6/10/2022
By Annie articles
TalPoint Weekly Wrap Up 6/10/2022
What We Can Learn from the Tim Hortons Mobile Privacy Debacle
CPO Magazine: Coffee anyone? After a two year investigation, the beloved (or maybe not beloved anymore) Canadian coffee chain, Tim Hortons, has agreed to stop gathering location data on mobile app users and is deleting all of its granular location data as well. Investigators announced that the mobile app secretly tracked and stored data without consent even when the app wasn’t in use. Shockingly the company doesn’t have to pay any fines but will create a privacy management program for their mobile app.
More: Privacy Commissioner of Canada | Entrepreneur | NYTimes ($)
@VaulterVS: Ransomware is no longer just a financial crime; it is an urgent national security risk that threatens schools, hospitals, businesses, and governments across the globe.
More: Institute For Security & Technology
80% of Firms Suffered Identity-Related Breaches in Last 12 Months
Dark Reading: In a survey conducted by Dimensional Research, 98% of organizations experience rapid growth in the number of identities that have to be managed. With this, organizations are seeing an increase in breaches (84% in 2022 versus 79% in 2020) due to partnerships and expanding cloud usage. A piece of good news is that executives focused on identity security are more likely to reduce the risk of breaches. Security must become a strategic part of company culture.
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