This is an account of events and communications related to a receiving that dreaded message from a company you do business with advising you of a data breach involving your information.
Identity theft 101
At Privacy Rightfully we are focused on helping you reduce the risk of being a victim to the malicious goals of bad actors. One of the consequences we often refer to is identity theft, so we felt it was worth writing what that actually entails beyond what people assume from the two words.
What is it that bad actors want?
It’s important to know what threats you’re protecting yourself from by following the work of Privacy Rightfully. This article helps answer that question as most people don’t take cybersecurity seriously until they fall victim to some of the examples outlined throughout this article.
The risks posed by Interactive Insurance Policies
Introduction
There is an emerging trend of insurance companies leveraging IoT devices or their own surveillance-based devices to harvest more data from our daily lives with the promise of a cost saving (amongst other rewards). This is the typical ‘data for dollars’ business model trending at the moment whereby a product or service is free or discounted in exchange for user data. Let’s have a look at some of the risks this can pose.
Cookies 101: Cookie Management
Many websites you visit tell you they use cookies and ask you to accept this before you’re allowed to browse the website. What exactly are they and what do they do? Are they a privacy risk? Let’s find out.
Challenging the way you imagine Data & Privacy
In this piece we consider the traditional way most people view data and privacy and hope to challenge it by aligning those concepts to simple items most people would have on their desk! It’s the first step in a journey to break down the technologically rooted definitions or dull images we form in our minds when our learning of such concepts comes from traditional research.