Breathe deeply with the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending May 16th, 2023

Up North here, it’s Springtime so we start with a deep breath of DNA and finish out of ink, we think! Between here and there we sneeze as we bump into a couple of projects, one that sniffs out unencrypted LTE communication and another that sniffed out the contents of the phone you lost or had taken as evidence by the police. We dab the tears of a former Bytedance executive as he makes allegations about the Chinese Communist Party “maintaining supreme access” to data, and Toyota who cleverly created an online portal that exposed driver’s data to anyone who looked for it, for a full 10 years!! There is spluttering from New Zealand as we learn about the dangers of holding onto sensitive data for a little too long and a gasp as we find Google in the UK doing the same. In the US, you might make an effort to make yourself presentable for the TSA as they will be taking your photograph at even more airports this summer (we name them all). Whether it’s the cat or the high pollen count turning on that runny nose, just grab a tissue and join in for the latest update adventure! For the full transcript to this podcast head over to Discuss.daml.com