Gabriel Kojima

Google still lets third-party apps scan your Gmail data https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/20/technology/google-gmail-scanning/index.html Google is defending its policy to allow third-party apps to access and share data from Gmail accounts, according to a letter made public Thursday. Gmail, which has over 1.4 billion users globally, lets third-party developers integrate services into its email platform, such as trip planners and custom relationship management systems. "Developers may share data with third parties so long as they are transparent with the users about how they are using the data," Susan Molinari, VP of public policy and government affairs for the Americas at Google, said in the letter to Senators, which was obtained by CNNMoney.

Full disclosure: Benchmarking data reveals the human error in privacy  incidents https://iapp.org/news/a/full-disclosure This month, we are returning to this topic to dig deeper into incident intent classifications and how they can be further broken down into specific scenarios. To level set, looking at data from January 2017 through July 2018, we can see that the vast majority of incidents fall into one intent classification: ·           Intentional, malicious intent: 0.86 percent of incidents. ·           Intentional, not malicious intent: 2.78 percent of all incidents. ·           Unintentional or inadvertent intent: 96.33 percent of all incidents. The numbers show that unintentional or inadvertent incidents — those typically caused by human error rather than malicious intent such as hacking — are by far the most common. ...