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Seeking your nu date online: what it’s like in 2024

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Are you single and keen to connect with someone on your wavelength? In 2024, more and more people are opting to go down the digital route. Why? Well, why not compare this method of matchmaking with the ‘tried-and-tested’ but ‘fraught with potential mismatching’ old days? If you used to hang out in nightclubs and singles bars, were you more likely to discover people seeking casual get-togethers or actively looking for something more meaningful? Probably the former. Flings are fine for a short-term fix, but too many liaisons where there’s no real connection can impact self-esteem. What could be more convenient than making yourself a coffee, opening your laptop or phone, and browsing through gallery after gallery of attractive compatible singles? Let’s take a closer look into modern dating by taking the example of one of these trendy digital meeting places. Welcome to the world of nu dates!

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The Importance of a Background Check: What Information is Visible?

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At some point in your life you may have been told that a background check is being run on you for whatever reason. This can sound daunting, but it’s quite a normal process and, in most cases, is just a routine security measure for a specific purpose. Learning what a background check is and understanding what information is included in a background check can help anybody better understand the report that is being generated on them. 

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Twitter’s Former Security Chief Accuses Company Negligent Security Practices

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Whistleblower complaint disclosures to the SEC many damning reports and accusations

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Ridgewood NJ, Twitter’s former head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko has accused the company of negligent security practices. He claims that Twitter misled federal regulators about its safety and that the company fails to properly estimate the number of bots on its platform. About half of Twitter’s 7,000 or so full-time employees have access to users’ sensitive personal data and internal software. Twitter has failed to delete user data in the past as the records were spread too widely among internal systems to be tracked. The company could face significant fines if the accusations are proven to be correct.

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The FTC invites you to comment on commercial surveillance and data security

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Who’s minding your business online ?

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Ridgewood NJ, many of us have grown used to the idea that companies constantly collect information about us as we go about our daily lives. It may be information we give up willingly, like a credit card number for a purchase. But it also may be information that we don’t know we’re surrendering, and may not want to share. Companies are able to collect enormous amounts of personal data about virtually every conceivable aspect of our lives, often in ways that we might not expect or understand.

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Robinhood Reports Hacker Breach Accessed to Data for 7 million Customers

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Ridgewood NJ, Personal data for more than 7 million Robinhood customers was accessed during a data breach on November 3. The attacker attempted to extort the company after the attack was contained. No social security, bank account, or debit card numbers appear to have been exposed and the affected customers didn’t lose any funds in the incident. The attacker obtained a list of emails for around 5 million people. Around 310 people had additional personal information exposed, and about 10 customers had more extensive account details revealed. The company is in the process of notifying those who have been affected.

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Better Safeguards of Resident Data Needed in the Village

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Ridgewood NJ, earlier this week residents pointed out that the Ridgewood public Library was collecting emails using an unsecure gmail account.

It appears as though the Library has just (today, 6/19) removed all references to the rgwdteens@gmail account from their website, and also removed the hyperlink to an on line questionnaire for volunteer positions in which personal identifying information was being solicited.

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Big Festival Brother? What summer music festivals are doing with your personal data

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LONDON — It’s May and the sun is finally out after a long British winter. For many that means one thing: festival season.

It’s a good occasion to disconnect from technology, go off the grid and enjoy a few days of carefree excitement. Or not.

Along with booze, music and mud — a lot of mud — British festivals may have another feature: mass surveillance.

Last year, Leicestershire police scanned the faces of 90,000 festival-goers at Download Festival, checking them against a list of wanted criminals across the country. It was the first time anywhere in the UK that facial recognition technology — NeoFace — was used at a public outdoor event.

Privacy campaigners — and Muse frontman Matt Bellamy — expressed their fury at authorities after they casually mentioned the use of the surveillance project on Police Oracle, a police news and information website. Police didn’t use any other method to warn festival-goers about the controversial initiative.

https://mashable.com/2016/05/14/music-festivals-personal-data-privacy/#apISzLEkpSq5

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New Wave of Federal Workers to be notified that their Data Was Hacked

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By Eric Katz
June 16, 2015

The Office of Personnel Management will notify many more individuals their personal information was compromised than the 4.2 million current and former federal employees the agency initially informed, officials said on Tuesday.

The timing of the second round of notifications, as well as the number of employees who will receive them, is still unknown by OPM. The agency’s director, Katherine Archuleta, confirmed to a congressional panel that OPM discovered, in the course of looking into the initial hack it uncovered in April, a second hack that targeted background investigation and security clearance data.

Archuleta said it will notify the those who went through background investigations their data was compromised “as soon as practicable,” with OPM’s Chief Information Officer Donna Seymour adding the agency first had to identify exactly whose information was hacked. The initial notifications began going out June 8 and will continue through June 19.

Representatives from the Homeland Security Department, Office of Management and Budget, Interior Department — where OPM’s hacked servers were housed — and OPM all said they were taking steps to upgrade systems and boost security protocols. The other agencies noted, however, the hack was OPM’s responsibility. Archuleta said, in turn, she inherited “decades old” legacy systems that she was doing her best to modernize them.

https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2015/06/opm-will-soon-notify-new-wave-workers-their-data-was-hacked/115441/?oref=govexec_today_nl