The latest data breach seems to have come from CVS Photo online and currently the site is offline. The offline site now states: We have been made aware that customer credit card information collected by the independent vendor who manages and hosts CVSPhoto.com may have been…
The Assistant News Editor at Upstart Business Journal recently noticed something unexpected about the way the Google Photos App worked on his smart phone. The News Editor had previously decided that he didn’t want Google Photos auto-uploading pictures he took on his phone to the…
The non-profit consumer advocate Consumer Watchdog filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission regarding Google’s search engine practices. Google’s failure to offer U.S. users the ability to request the removal of search engine links from their name to information that is inadequate, irrelevant, no…
Last week the New York Attorney General’s Office revealed an investigation that showed that Whole Foods was overcharging customers on as many as eighty of its pre-packaged meals. Yesterday, Whole Foods admitted that it had made mistakes and apologized for the errors in overcharging according…
Hershey Park in Pennsylvania has announced that it believes it has suffered a data breach related to credit and debit cards that had been used throughout the park. “We have received reports from some of our guests that fraud charges appeared on their payment cards…
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, also known as EPIC, has taken an account of Uber’s new privacy policy. Uber has a long history of privacy related complaints, most notably the allegation that an Uber executive spied on a journalist who was preparing an unflattering story…