A form captures the customer's Name and Gender, and other details.

On the form, Gender is required, but "Prefer not to say" is an answer choice.

If there's a business strategy for "Prefer not to say" accounts, is Gender even necessary data?

If Gender were an optional question, and many customers left it blank, what attitudes and needs might a bit of user research uncover about #gender, #privacy, and #trust?

#UR #UserResearch #UX #form #DataEntry #AccountDetails #CustomerRecords #GDPR #data

Pharma Giant Pfizer Leaks Customer Prescription Info, Call Transcripts

Hundreds of medical patients taking cancer drugs, Premarin, Lyrica and more are now vulnerable to phishing, malware and identity fraud.

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Broadvoice Leak Exposes 350M Records, Personal Voicemail Transcripts

Companies that use Broadvoice's cloud-based VoIP platform may find their patients, customers, suppliers and partners to be impacted by a massive data exposure.

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Home Chef Serves Up Data Breach for 8 Million Records - The meal-kit company's customer records were leaked as part of the Shiny Hunters breach. more: https://threatpost.com/home-chef-data-breach-8-million-records/156031/ #undergroundforum #customerrecords #shinyhunters #compromise #databreach #8million #homechef #privacy #breach #hacks
Home Chef Serves Up Data Breach for 8 Million Records

The meal-kit company's customer records were leaked as part of the Shiny Hunters breach.

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Estée Lauder Exposes 440M Records, with Email Addresses, Network Info - Middleware data was exposed, which can create a secondary path for malware through which applicati... more: https://threatpost.com/estee-lauder-440m-records-email-network-info/152789/ #networkinformation #440millionrecords #misconfiguration #customerrecords #emailaddresses #cloudsecurity #clouddatabase #dataexposure #websecurity #esteelauder #databreach #middleware #breach
Estée Lauder Exposes 440M Records, with Email Addresses, Network Info

Middleware data was exposed, which can create a secondary path for malware through which applications and data can be compromised.

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7M Adobe Creative Cloud Users Exposed to Hackers - An open cloud database sets the stage for phishing attacks for users of the subscription service. more: https://threatpost.com/adobe-creative-cloud-users-exposed-hackers/149563/ #cloudmisconfiguration #adobecreativecloud #customerrecords #phishingattacks #dataexposure #privacy #breach
7M Adobe Creative Cloud Users Exposed to Hackers

An open cloud database sets the stage for phishing attacks for users of the subscription service.

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