John Routledge

Founder and owner of Technoshia.com - I'm an avid tech junkie, a lover of new gadgets and home automation. You will often find me reading, writing, and learning about new technologies. I've been featured in many leading technology magazines where I've written about my favorite topics.
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France fines Amazon $35 million over ‘intrusive’ employee surveillance
23 Jan

France fines Amazon $35 million over ‘intrusive’ employee surveillance

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France’s data privacy watchdog organization, the CNIL, has fined a logistics subsidiary of Amazon €32 million, or $35 million in US dollars, over the company’s use of an “overly intrusive” employee surveillance system. The CNIL says that the system employed by Amazon France Logistique “measured work interruptions with such accuracy, potentially requiring employees to justify every break or interruption.”Of course,…
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How Disney’s A Real Bug’s Life docu-series turns insects into giants
23 Jan

How Disney’s A Real Bug’s Life docu-series turns insects into giants

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Pixar‘s 1998 movie, A Bug’s Life, brought tiny CGI ants to the world’s largest screens. National Geographic’s new docu-series, A Real Bug’s Life inverts that, turning insects into giants in our homes. The only thing digital about the critters featured in the Disney+ series, though, is the technology filming them. But like its animated counterpart, the show explores the world…
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Apparel supplier for North Face, Vans admits its cyberattack led to a data breach of 35 million customers
23 Jan

Apparel supplier for North Face, Vans admits its cyberattack led to a data breach of 35 million customers

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Major apparel supplier VF Corp followed up on its December cyberattack disclosure, with its latest Securities and Exchange Commission form admitting to a data breach impacting up to 35.5 million customers. That means if you've purchased from its major brands like Vans, North Face, Timberland, Dickies and more, you may have been impacted. But VF Corp still insists that the…
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Carnegie Mellon reveals it was hit by a cyberattack over the summer
23 Jan

Carnegie Mellon reveals it was hit by a cyberattack over the summer

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A cyberattack hit Carnegie Mellon University last summer and the attackers breached personal data, according to a disclosure from the school last week. The Pittsburgh-based university known for its top tech and computer science programs said on Friday that the attack impacted 7,300 students, employees, contractors and other affiliates."There is no evidence of fraud or inappropriate use of the information…
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LoanDepot discloses that hackers breached personal data of 16 million customers
23 Jan

LoanDepot discloses that hackers breached personal data of 16 million customers

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As mortgage lender LoanDepot continues recovery efforts from a ransomware attack, it revealed on Monday that hackers stole data from more than 16 million customers. A Securities and Exchange Commission filing from the mortgage lender did not detail what kind of information the hackers breached, only that "an unauthorized third party gained access to sensitive personal information."LoanDepot first revealed it…
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TurboTax maker Intuit faces FTC ban on advertising ‘free’ services
23 Jan

TurboTax maker Intuit faces FTC ban on advertising ‘free’ services

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Intuit is once again facing consequences for misleading advertising that claims it offers "free" services. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is banning TurboTax's maker from claiming services are free when most customers will end up having to pay. "We find that Intuit's ads on their face, expressly or by strong implication, conveyed to reasonable consumers the message that they can…
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