• Norwegian Telenor shared sensitive personal data with the military junta in Myanmar: The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) reports that Telenor shared sensitive subscriber metadata with Myanmar’s military junta after the 2021 coup, while also blocking phones and websites.
• DOGE uploaded live copy of Social Security database to ‘vulnerable’ cloud server, says whistleblower: A Social Security Administration official turned whistleblower says members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded hundreds of millions of Social Security records to a vulnerable cloud server
• SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes: Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.
• Nigeria probes 1,369 organizations in major privacy crackdown: The targeted companies are in some of the country’s most sensitive sectors, including 795 financial institutions, 392 insurance brokers, 35 insurance companies, 10 pension firms, and 136 gaming operators.
• Poland fines ING Bank Śląski 18.4m zloty over data privacy violations: Poland’s data protection agency has fined ING Bank Śląski – which is majority owned by the Dutch ING Group – 18.4 million zloty (€4.3 million) for breaching EU privacy rules.