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Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

Malwarebytes

In 2005 it started a close cooperation with Yahoo! None of the customer data was sold and Alibaba’s users didn’t incur financial losses from the episode, the company said in a statement. Taobao devotes substantial resources to combat unauthorized scraping on our platform, as data privacy and security is of utmost importance.

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Expanded New York Data Privacy Laws Loom in 2021

SecureWorld News

New York appears to be poised to make 2021 the year of data privacy for the Empire State. As part of the 2021 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a comprehensive law that "will provide New Yorkers with transparency and control over their personal data and provide new privacy protections.".

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$12m Grindr fine shows GDPR’s got teeth

Malwarebytes

As thoughts turn to Data Privacy this week in a big way , GDPR illustrates it isn’t an afterthought. Grindr, the popular social network and dating platform , will likely suffer a $ 12 million USD fine due to privacy related complaints. Batten down the data privacy hatches. What is GDPR?