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Facebook And Google Opt Into Berners-Lee Data Privacy ‘Contract’

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Facebook and Google have signed up for new internet standards, which will require internet companies to respect data privacy and “support the best in humanity.” Amazon , which was named in the report, has not signed up and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Data Breaches Impact Unemployment Benefit Applicants In Four States

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Alisha Curtis, a spokesperson for the Arkansas Commerce Department, said they were forced to close the website and contract 33,000 applicants who were exposed to a data security incident. Protech Solutions Inc., a Little Rock, Arkansas software company, developed the jobless benefits system for $3 million.

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Data Dive, Glitches, Bounces And Scrapes Edition: Target, Bitcoin And Venmo

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Neither issue, according to Target, was related to data security, and all consumer data remained safe secure and private. The move comes a year after privacy researcher Hang Do Thi Duc downloaded 207 million Venmo transactions to prove a similar point. pay for things they wanted to buy in the store.

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