OPC’s privacy breach risk self-assessment tool
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s privacy breach risk self-assessment will guide you through a series of questions that will analyze key details of the breach to assess…
DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy, CEO resigns
23andMe on Sunday filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. after struggling with the fallout of a data breach and weak demand for its ancestry testing kits that featured in Oprah…
What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses?
A paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for regulations to protect customers’ personal and genetic data in light of biotech company 23andMe’s uncertain future. The genetic…
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling out to Amazon Echo devices in the coming weeks, we’re…
Undocumented “backdoor” found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented “backdoor” that could be leveraged for attacks. The…