A mandatory app exposed the personal information of students and teachers across the country for over a year.
SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.
The decision is one of the most consequential issued under the E.U.’s landmark data-protection law and creates a new business headwind for the social media giant.
Meet Toka, the Israeli cyber firm founded by Ehud Barak, that lets clients hack cameras and change their feeds – just like in Hollywood heist movies
Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.
Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance About this series: As co-founder of the French search engine Qwant, Eric Leandri was heralded as a champion of digital privacy and an example of Eur…
A 500-page document reviewed by WIRED shows Corellium engaged with several controversial companies, including spyware maker NSO Group.
L’Autorità ha aperto un’istruttoria nei confronti del Comune di Lecce, che ha annunciato l’avvio di un sistema che prevede l’impiego di tecnologie di riconoscimento facciale.
In base alla normativa europea e nazionale, ha ricordato l’Autorità, il trattamento di dati personali realizzato da soggetti pubblici, mediante dispositivi video, è generalmente ammesso se necessario per l’esecuzione di un compito di interesse pubblico o connesso all’esercizio di pubblici poteri.
Attorneys general found that Google violated state consumer protection laws by misleading consumers about its location-data practices, tracking consumers even when their location history setting was turned off.
Apple is facing a proposed federal class action alleging that it records users' mobile activity without their consent and despite privacy...
Christopher Wray, the F.B.I.’s director, told Congress last December that the bureau purchased the phone hacking tool Pegasus for research and development purposes.
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand to the Department for Education (DfE) following the prolonged misuse of the personal information of up to 28 million children.
An ICO investigation found that the DfE’s poor due diligence meant a database of pupils’ learning records was ultimately used by Trust Systems Software UK Ltd (trading as Trustopia), an employment screening firm, to check whether people opening online gambling accounts were 18.
Leaked data obtained by TechCrunch reveals the notorious network of Android spyware apps tracked locations and recorded calls of Americans.
Any app with access to Bluetooth could record your conversations with Siri and audio from the iOS keyboard dictation feature when using AirPods or Beats headsets. This would happen without the app requesting microphone access permission and without the app leaving any trace that it was listening to the microphone.
Today, the US government published an executive order, allegedly limiting US surveillance. This is a first statement by noyb.
The executive order will give EU citizens redress for intelligence collection that violates U.S. laws.
With iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, Apple is introducing passkeys—a more convenient and secure alternative to passwords.
The “Augury” platform includes highly sensitive network data that Team Cymru, a private company, is selling to the military. “It’s everything. There’s nothing else to capture except the smell of electricity,” one cybersecurity expert said.
A data broker has been selling raw location data about individual people to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, EFF has learned. This personal data isn’t gathered from cell phone towers or tech giants like Google — it’s obtained by the broker via thousands of different apps on Android and iOS app stores as part of the larger location data marketplace.
A few months ago, we blogged about malicious extensions redirecting users to phishing sites and inserting affiliate IDs into cookies of eCommerce sites. Since that time, we have investigated several other malicious extensions and discovered 5 extensions with a total install base of over 1,400,000
"...the extensions also track the user’s browsing activity."
