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Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
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.
#ApNews#EN#2022#AP-Investigations#Technology#Police#California#Arkansas#Weekend-Reads#North-Carolina#privacy#Government-surveillance#Law-enforcement-agencies#Criminal-investigations
·apnews.com·
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?
Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?
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
#lukaszolejnik#EN#2022#research#privacy#web-browser#web#w3c#consent#data-breach#gdpr#dns#cname#cloacking
·blog.lukaszolejnik.com·
Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Apple and Meta provided basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 in response to the forged “emergency data requests.” Normally, such requests are only provided with a search warrant or subpoena signed by a judge, according to the people. However, the emergency requests don’t require a court order.
#bloomberg#EN#2022#RecursionTeam#Lapsus$#Apple#Meta#privacy#forged#datarequest
·bloomberg.com·
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
Denmark: Datatilsynet publishes guidance on use of cloud technologies
Denmark: Datatilsynet publishes guidance on use of cloud technologies
The Danish data protection authority ('Datatilsynet') announced, on 9 March 2022, that it had published a new guide on the use of cloud services, as well as a short overview of frequently asked questions ('FAQs'). In particular, the Datatilsynet stated that the new guide is targeted at data controllers and notes the considerations which data controllers must keep in mind when using a cloud service, including an outline of the pitfalls, opportunities, and obligations that arise when using such technologies. Document PDF
#Denmark#dataguidance#EN#2022#guidance#cloud#privacy#legal#EU#Datatilsynet
·dataguidance.com·
Denmark: Datatilsynet publishes guidance on use of cloud technologies
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
As a journalist working for the Arab news network Alaraby, Rania Dridi said she’s taken precautions to avoid being targeted by hackers, keeping an eye out for suspicious messages and avoiding clicking on links or opening attachments from people she doesn’t know.
#Bloomberg#EN#2022#zeroclick#spyware#NSO#governement#spy#privacy#attack
·bloombergquint.com·
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
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.
#ApNews#EN#2022#AP-Investigations#Technology#Police#California#Arkansas#Weekend-Reads#North-Carolina#privacy#Government-surveillance#Law-enforcement-agencies#Criminal-investigations
·apnews.com·
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?
Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?
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
#lukaszolejnik#EN#2022#research#privacy#web-browser#web#w3c#consent#data-breach#gdpr#dns#cname#cloacking
·blog.lukaszolejnik.com·
Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion - broad data leaks included?
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
Apple Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, provided customer data to hackers who masqueraded as law enforcement officials, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Apple and Meta provided basic subscriber details, such as a customer’s address, phone number and IP address, in mid-2021 in response to the forged “emergency data requests.” Normally, such requests are only provided with a search warrant or subpoena signed by a judge, according to the people. However, the emergency requests don’t require a court order.
#bloomberg#EN#2022#RecursionTeam#Lapsus$#Apple#Meta#privacy#forged#datarequest
·bloomberg.com·
Apple and Meta Gave User Data to Hackers Who Used Forged Legal Requests
Denmark: Datatilsynet publishes guidance on use of cloud technologies
Denmark: Datatilsynet publishes guidance on use of cloud technologies
The Danish data protection authority ('Datatilsynet') announced, on 9 March 2022, that it had published a new guide on the use of cloud services, as well as a short overview of frequently asked questions ('FAQs'). In particular, the Datatilsynet stated that the new guide is targeted at data controllers and notes the considerations which data controllers must keep in mind when using a cloud service, including an outline of the pitfalls, opportunities, and obligations that arise when using such technologies. Document PDF
#Denmark#dataguidance#EN#2022#guidance#cloud#privacy#legal#EU#Datatilsynet
·dataguidance.com·
Denmark: Datatilsynet publishes guidance on use of cloud technologies
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
As a journalist working for the Arab news network Alaraby, Rania Dridi said she’s taken precautions to avoid being targeted by hackers, keeping an eye out for suspicious messages and avoiding clicking on links or opening attachments from people she doesn’t know.
#Bloomberg#EN#2022#zeroclick#spyware#NSO#governement#spy#privacy#attack
·bloombergquint.com·
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
Robot vacuum companies say your images are safe, but a sprawling global supply chain for data from our devices creates risk.
#technologyreview#EN#2022#privacy#robots#robot-vacuums#iRobot#Roomba#Amazon#artificial-intelligence#machine-learning#computer-vision#internet-of-things#surveillance#Federal-Trade-Commission
·technologyreview.com·
A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?
Department for Education warned after gambling companies benefit from learning records database
Department for Education warned after gambling companies benefit from learning records database
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.
#ICO#UK#EN#2022#education#PII#students#misuse#data#privacy#records#database#children
·ico.org.uk·
Department for Education warned after gambling companies benefit from learning records database
SiriSpy - iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
SiriSpy - iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
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.
#rambo.codes#EN#2022#iOS#bug#Siri#SiriSpy#Bluetooth#AirPods#privacy
·rambo.codes·
SiriSpy - iOS bug allowed apps to eavesdrop on your conversations with Siri
Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data
Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data
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.
#vice#EN#2022#Augury#Cymru#U.S.#military#NCIS#privacy
·vice.com·
Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
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.
#EFF#EN#2022#Fog-Data-Science#surveillance#broker#data#data-broker#privacy#police
·eff.org·
Inside Fog Data Science, the Secretive Company Selling Mass Surveillance to Local Police
Malicious Cookie Stuffing Chrome Extensions with 1.4 Million Users
Malicious Cookie Stuffing Chrome Extensions with 1.4 Million Users
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."
#mcafee#2022#EN#malicious#extensions#Chrome#Analysis#privacy#browser#cookie#Stuffing
·mcafee.com·
Malicious Cookie Stuffing Chrome Extensions with 1.4 Million Users
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’
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.
#ApNews#EN#2022#AP-Investigations#Technology#Police#California#Arkansas#Weekend-Reads#North-Carolina#privacy#Government-surveillance#Law-enforcement-agencies#Criminal-investigations
·apnews.com·
Tech tool offers police ‘mass surveillance on a budget’