British Airways Fined Record £183m Fine for Data Breach
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| British Airways Fined Record £183m Fine for Data Breach | |
| Number | 884 |
| Broadcast Date | JULY 8, 2019 |
| Episode Length | 4:54 |
| Hosts | Rich Stroffolino |
British Airways faces record fine for 2018 customer data breach, Amazon’s Kuiper Systems files with the US FCC to launch broadband satellites, and Apple begins testing bio-metric web sign-ins.
Headlines
- The UK's Information Commissioner’s Office announced plans to fine British airways £183 million for violating GDPR rules in a 2018 data breach that affected 380,000 people. The ICO's investigation found that "poor security arrangements" led to the breach of of credit card information, names, addresses, travel booking details, and logins. GDPR allows for fine up to 4% of a companies worldwide turnover, with the British Airways fine amounting to 1.5% of 2017 revenue. British Airways has 28 days to appeal the ruling.
- Amazon subsidiary Kuiper Systems filed an application with the US FCC to launch a fleet of satellites to provide global broadband coverage. According to the filing this would include 3,236 satellites in 98 orbital planes, at altitudes ranging between 366 and 391 miles. The filing also acknowledges the need to share spectrum with competing companies like SpaceX, OneWeb, and Iridium. Kuiper Systems could begin offering broadband service after its Phase One rollout of 578 satellites. The filing did not detail when or who would launch the satellites.
- MoviePass shut down services to customers as of July 4th at 5am. According to CEO Mitch Lowe, the shut down will last several weeks to complete work on a new app. During this time, the service won't accept new sign ups or charge existing customers. Subscribers who have already paid for the month will be automatically credited for downtime once MoviePass resumes service.
- A security flaw in the 7-Eleven Japan 7Pay mobile payment app resulted in roughly 900 people losing a total of ¥55 million since launching on July 1st. This was caused by a poorly implemented password reset feature, which allowed anyone to request password resets on accounts, and have the reset link sent to an email address not already linked to the account. Requesting a reset only required an email address, date of birth, and phone number, ans users who did not put in a birthday during account creation received a default of January 1, 2019. 7-11 Japan shut down the service on July 3rd, and promised to compensate all users who lost funds.
- Apple is testing biometric sign-ins on the web with iCloud.com. Users running the betas of iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS Catalina who go to beta.icloud.com can choose to sign in with Face ID or Touch ID. At WWDC this year, Apple announced that Sign in with Apple tools would be available to developers this summer, ahead of the feature’s public launch in September.
- Mozilla denied claims by the UK's Internet Services Providers Association that it plans to enable DNS-over-HTTPS by default in the Firefox browser in the UK. The ISPA and the UK government have expressed concern that DNS-over-HTTPS could get around ISP blocks on sites either banned by the government or voluntarily blocked by ISPs at the request of child protection groups or parents. Firefox includes support for DNS-over-HTTPS since November 2018, but is not enabled by default. Mozilla did state it is in talks with European partners to bring the feature to more European users.
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that the company will "most likely" begin upgrading older Tesla models with its new custom self-driving chip by Q4. Musk previously stated this upgrade would be free for anyone who purchased the Full Self-Driving software package, and would upgrade cars based on the "Hardware 2" platform. Tesla vehicles produced since March already use Tesla's new chip design.
- The Chrome browser Canary nightly builds show a new feature called Global Media Controls. When a video is playing in any tab, a play icon is shown next to the URL bar in the browser. Clicking on it reveals further controls, letting users pause, play, or skip forward/backward in the video without switching to the tab. Early tests found the feature didn't work with all video sources currently, and no word when or if Global Media Controls would come to the main Chrome Browser release channel.
- Alphabet self-driving car subsidiary Waymo began testing complimentary Wi-Fi in its Phoenix-based Waymo One self-driving fleet, along with making sure all vehicles come with an installed child seat. This follows the addition of ad-free music streaming from Google Play Music for passengers, launched in April. Waymo One service is currently being trialed by 1000 users, in a 100-square-mile service area around Phoenix, Arizona.
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British Airways Fined Record £183m Fine for Data Breach |
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