Local law enforcement agencies from suburban Southern California to rural North Carolina have been using an obscure cellphone tracking tool, at times without search warrants, that gives them the power to follow people’s movements months back in time, according to public records and internal emails obtained by The Associated Press.
La Federal Trade Commission, l'agence responsables des bonnes pratiques commerciales aux États-Unis, a lancé une procédure judiciaire contre Kocheva, un groupe chargé du traitement de données de milliers d'entreprises, dont Googles Ads, TikTok ou Tinder. Cette société est accusée de revendre des informations très
When people seek medical care or visit other sensitive locations, they may think their presence is confidential.
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.
Francine Jeanprêtre, ancienne conseillère nationale et conseillère d’Etat vaudoise, a été dénoncée à la police après avoir été filmée par une Tesla qu’elle aurait endommagée sur un parking. Selon les autorités fédérales, cette pratique est illégale
Iranian hacker group Sharp Boys obtained personal data from over 20 Israeli tourism sites.
For years, activists and academics have been raising concerns that facial analysis software that claims to be able to identify a person’s age, gender and emotional state can be biased, unreliable or invasive — and shouldn’t be sold.
A group of academic researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany has discovered that mobile devices leak identifying information about their owners via Wi-Fi probe requests.
Critics say the government isn’t doing enough to inform the public about such secretive surveillance.
German ISPs are working on the introduction of TrustPid. A supercookie that is intended to replace tracking cookies.
Apple has released a silent update for Mac users removing a vulnerable component in Zoom, the popular video conferencing app, which allowed websites to automatically add a user to a video call without their permission. The Cupertino, Calif.-based tech giant told TechCrunch that the update — now released — removes the hidden web server, which […]
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Clearview AI Inc £7,552,800 for using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were collected from the web and social media to create a global online database that could be used for facial recognition.
The ICO has also issued an enforcement notice, ordering the company to stop obtaining and using the personal data of UK residents that is publicly available on the internet, and to delete the data of UK residents from its systems.
User tracking technologies are ubiquitous on the web. In recent times web browsers try to fight abuses. This led to an arms race where new tracking and anti-tracking measures are being developed. The use of one of such evasion techniques, the CNAME cloaking technique is recently quickly gaining popularity. Our evidence indicates that the use of the CNAME scheme threatens web security and privacy systematically and in general
Two Egyptians—exiled politician Ayman Nour and the host of a popular news program (who wishes to remain anonymous)—were hacked with Predator spyware, built and sold by the previously little-known mercenary spyware developer Cytrox. The phone of Ayman Nour was simultaneously infected with both Cytrox’s Predator and NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, operated by two different government clients.
The data could be a potential first step to identifying the users of a specific app in a post-abortion rights America.
Tracking, marketing, and analytics firms have been exfiltrating the email addresses of internet users from web forms prior to submission and without user consent, according to security researchers.
Web users enter their email addresses into online forms for a variety of reasons, including signing in or signing up for a service or subscribing to a newsletter. While enabling such functionality, email addresses typed into forms can also be collected by third-party scripts even when users change their minds and leave the site without submitting the form.
Rules for industries and governments aim to prevent all-out cyber breakdown.
ISPs are quietly distributing "netflow" data that can, among other things, trace traffic through VPNs.
Gli smartphone di almeno cinque funzionari di Bruxelles e del commissario alla Giustizia Reynders sono stati tenuti sotto controllo tra febbraio e settembre 2021 con software dell'azienda isrealiana Pegaus, contro cui Reynders aveva chiesto l'apertura di un'indagine
