On March 20, 2018, the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services and Saint-Gobain entered into a “Consent Decree.” A Consent Decree is an agreement with the state to settle or resolve claims the state has against Saint-Gobain. As the NHDES representative stated at the public meeting announcing the agreement, the… read more
It has been reported by The New York Times and The Guardian that Cambridge Analytica, a political data-mining and consulting firm, collected and accessed over 50 million Facebook users’ private information without their knowledge. They used this data to develop a software program that profiled these citizens to predict voting patterns – and, through… read more
Originally posted on The New York Times by Brian X. Chen on March 19, 2018. Revelations that a voter-profiling company that worked Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign harvested private information from 50 million Facebook profiles have many people wondering: What, if anything, can they do to protect their data connected… read more
Originally posted on The Washington Post by By Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Tom Hamburger on March 18, 2018. Facebook’s recent suspension of Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that played a key role in President Trump’s 2016 campaign, highlights the rapid rise of a company that claimed it had reached new heights in marrying the… read more
Originally posted on The Fayetteville Observer by Greg Barnes on February 12, 2018. GenX has been found in wells near a Chemours plant in West Virginia, raising concerns there about contaminated drinking water. The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware, reports Chemours is testing drinking water this month near its Washington… read more
On January 5, 2018, Appen informed employees that their personal information could have been compromised in a data breach. The letter states that Appen learned one of their employees had been the victim of a phishing attack on October 16, 2017. Through an investigation of the breach, Appen determined that… read more
The safety of the world’s most widely used weed killer, Monsanto’s Roundup, is being put into question by a group of people who claim they have developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a result of exposure to glyphosate. Glyphosate, Roundup’s main ingredient, was introduced in the 1970s and is the most widely… read more
Originally posted on StarNews by Steve DeVane on March 6, 2018. Nearly all the 27 private wells tested in Robeson County for GenX have the potentially cancer causing compound, the county health director said today. None of the wells have levels of GenX close to the state Department of Health… read more
Originally posted on 9news.com by The Coloradoan’s Pat Ferrier on March 10, 2018. A Northern Colorado dermatology practice is alerting some patients that some of their personal health information was breached on Jan. 12. Front Range Dermatology Associates notified patients March 7 that a terminated employee had improperly acquired a… read more
On January 31, 2018, an individual posing as the President of ASI Constructors requested copies of employee Form W-2s from 2017. Copies of the W-2 forms were supplied before the company figured out that it was a scam. Read the Notice ASI Constructors sent to Employees WHAT INFORMATION WAS COMPROMISED? A… read more