StarHub the latest to suffer customer data breach
The Singapore telco detected a data dump on a third-party site containing personal information of more than 57,000 of its customers.
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EU gives go-ahead to Google’s Fitbit deal, with strings attached
The European Commission has approved Google’s plan to acquire Fitbit after deeming the search giant’s commitments have satisfied competition and consumer protection requirements.
COVID-19 forces Alphabet to pull plug on Page’s pet project
Alphabet has decided to terminate a smart city project in Toronto’s waterfront, a 2.5-year old project undertaken by its subsidiary Sidewalk Labs and a favourite of Google’s co-founder Larry Page.
HMD moves Nokia phone user data storage to Finland
HMD Global, the maker of Nokia-branded smartphones, announced that it is moving the storage of user data to Google Cloud servers located in Finland, to serve its users with faster upgrade rollout and better security.
UK consumers are resigned to poor data security, research finds
The new EY research in UK’s digital households found over four in ten consumers believed their data would never be fully secure, despite the recent regulatory changes including GDPR.
Amazon China staff were reportedly selling-on user data
Amazon is conducting an internal investigation into allegations that its staff in China received bribes from merchants for user data.
The security of Polar users’ data could be comprised, in a big way
The Finnish fitness device and software maker Polar has found itself in the centre of a data leaking scandal, which it’s feared could jeopardise the security of personnel on sensitive missions.
Did Yahoo breach Verizon’s trust?
As news of the Yahoo data breach hits the headlines, two questions spring to mind; who would have thought Yahoo has 500 million users, and secondly, what does this mean for the Verizon deal?
As its presence grows in China Apple opposes US hacking order
US smartphone giant Apple has been asked to assist the FBI in unlocking a phone at the same time as it launches Apple Pay in China.
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