The IT Privacy and Security Weekly update Hangs up the Phone for the Week Ending December 12th. 2023

Episode 169
This week we hang up the phone with a couple of definitive stories, the first coming from a huge US phone company and the last a Dutch phone company that is ripping the title of “The phone to be seen with” out of the hands of Apple, Google and Samsung.

Second in our stories this week is a blatant example from the UK of an individual in the public sector courting the private sector.
In at story three is yet another US healthcare provider getting breached.
Then we find Apple commissioning a report about data breaches and ransomware while at the same time crippling an app that delivered their secure iMessages to Android.
We have a creepy move by Google to potentially provide context to your interactions with their bots by feeding them your photo data.
And we bring Microsoft into the mix with a story about how their Active Directory could end up delivering what it shouldn’t to a certain type of query.
There’s only one way to stop that ringing in your ear. Let’s pick up the phone!

Find the full transcript to this week's podcast here.