Insecurity

Insecurity is a form of INFORMATION PROCESSING privacy harm under the Solove taxonomy. Insecurity is defined as "carelessness in protecting information from leaks or improper access."

An e-commerce website allowing others to view an individual's purchase history by changing the URL (e.g. enterprivacy.com?id=123)

Occurrences

• 1Health.io and it's Inadequate Protection of Genetic Data and Unfair Privacy Policy (16 June 2023)
• 45 Million Medical Files Leaked (December 2020)
• AI Pandemic
• Amazon Gives Access to Alexa Recordings to a Wrong User (2018)
• Amazon Sidewalk: The Privacy Risks of Automatic Enrollment in Shared Networks (2023)
• Amazon heavily fined for invasion of privacy and insecurity (1 June 2023)
• Amazon’s Ring Security Camera (2020)
• Anthem Data Breach (2014)
• Apple Faces Lawsuit Over AirTag Stalking Dangers (6 December 2022)
• Attempt to Extort Toronto Hospital Using Stolen Patient Data (October 2020)
• Attorney-Client Calls by Jails (July 2020)
• Australian News-Sharing Platform Leaks 80 Thousand User Records (October 2020)
• Australian Security Cameras Hacked (June 2020)
• Belarusian Hackers Leaked Police Personal Information (September 2020)
• Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Scandal (2016)
• Canada Revenue Agency Credential Stuffing Attack (August 2020)
• Central Health Employee Accessed Patient Data (July 2020)
• Child Safety Smartwatches Easy to Hack (2017)
• China's Massive Data Breach Reveals Growing Concerns Over Surveillance State (15 July 2022)
• Chinese facial recognition company exposes the database of people's locations (13 February 2019)
• Clearview AI Settles Lawsuit and Limits the Sales of Facial Recognition Database (May 2020)
• College Recruitment Database Leak (July 2020)
• Contact Tracing Apps (July 2020)
• Cyber Espionage on LinkedIn (July 2020)
• Data Breach Compromising 500 Thousands Call of Duty Accounts (September 2020)
• Data Breach at Immigration Law Firm (November 2020)
• Data Broker Exposes Millions Of Profiles (August 2020)
• Dating Apps User Information Leaked Online (June 2020)
• Disappearance of British woman: Privacy Concerns and Police Transparency (27 January 2023)
• Discord Admits Data Breach: Info of 760K Users Sold Online (14 August 2023)
• ESO Solutions Faces Privacy Class-Action Lawsuit Over Biometric Data (November 2024)
• EasyJet Cyber Attack (May 2020)
• Equifax Data Breach (2017)
• Exploit on Apple’s Secure Enclave (July 2020)
• Exploring the Perceptions of Location Sharing: Privacy vs. Affection (2023)
• F.B.I. Says Video Voyeur Hid Camera in Cruise Ship Bathroom (April 30 ^JL)
• FBI's De-anonymization Attack on Tor (November 2014)
• Facebook's "People You May Know" Feature (November 2017)
• Female Student Killed After Blackmail (2020)
• Flickr Share Images with MegaFace (2014)
• Freepik Company Data Breach (October 2020)
• GEDmatch Accidentaly Share Data With Police (July 2020)
• GEDmatch DNA Testing Website (2019)
• German Police Accesses People’s WhatsApp Message (July 2020)
• Google Bug Sent Private Videos to the Wrong People (2020)
• Google Collects Firebase Data (2020)
• Google+ Bugs Exposed Private Profile Information (2018)
• Grabs Four Privacy Breaches in Two Years (September 2020)
• Gravatar Can Be Abused for Information Collection of Its Profiles (October 2020)
• Hack of Celebrities Revealing Photos (2014)

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Laws and Regulations

The following laws and regulations address the Insecurity harm.