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Insecure wheels : Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis - 28 décembre 2020
Looser privacy standards for vehicle data are a treasure chest of data for law enforcement.
On June 26, 2017, the lifeless body of Ronald French, a bearded auto mechanic with once-twinkling eyes, was mysteriously found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
French, a grandfather of eight who always tried (...)
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We asked five menstruation apps for our data and here is what we found... - 27 décembre 2020
We asked five menstruation apps to give us access to our data. We got a dizzying dive into the most intimate information about us.
Key findings
Out of the five apps we surveyed, two apps responded well and fully to our DSAR, one app did not give us our data, one never responded, and one is refusing to let us (...)
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Police Want Your Smart Speaker—Here’s Why - 25 décembre 2020
Requests are rising from law enforcement for information on the devices, which can include internet queries, food orders, and overheard conversations.
In July 2019, police rushed to the home of 32-year-old Silvia Galva. Galva’s friend, also in the home, called 911, claiming she overheard a violent argument between (...)
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Powerful Cellphone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity - 23 décembre 2020
CellHawk helps law enforcement visualize large quantities of information collected by cellular towers and providers.
Until now, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. CellHawk has been in wide use by law enforcement ; the software is helping (...)
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Google, Cisco and VMware join Microsoft to oppose NSO Group in WhatsApp spyware case - 22 décembre 2020
A coalition of companies have filed an amicus brief in support of a legal case brought by WhatsApp against Israeli intelligence firm NSO Group, accusing the company of using an undisclosed vulnerability in the messaging app to hack into at least 1,400 devices, some of which were owned by journalists and human (...)
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Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ’Zero-Click’ Exploit - 21 décembre 2020
Summary & Key Findings
In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The personal phone of a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV was also hacked.
The phones were (...)
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Les iPhone de journalistes d’Al-Jazira ciblés par des logiciels d’espionnage ultrasophistiqués - 21 décembre 2020
Des dizaines d’iPhone de journalistes de la chaîne d’informations qatarie ont été surveillés de manière indétectable grâce à des outils de l’entreprise israélienne NSO Group, révèle un rapport du Citizen Lab de Toronto, expert dans l’étude des logiciels espions.
Les iPhone de dizaines d’employés de la chaîne d’information (...)
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Menstruation apps store excessive information, privacy charity says - 21 décembre 2020
Privacy International finds apps collect information on birth control habits or how hard it is for women to reach orgasm
Menstruation apps are unnecessarily storing personal data such as what medication women are on, their birth control habits and how hard women find it to reach orgasm, privacy campaigners have (...)
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Why Tech’s Great Powers Are Warring - 20 décembre 2020
The feud between Apple and Facebook enters a new era
An adage of international relations holds that great powers have no permanent friends or allies, only permanent interests. (The original quote, from a 19th-century English statesman known as Lord Palmerston, is a bit less pithy.) It accounts for how the United (...)
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NSO Group WhatsApp hack victims speak out, from India to Rwanda - 19 décembre 2020
Around the world, governments are using surveillance tools they have purchased from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group — the infamous creator of Pegasus — to monitor and crack down on human rights defenders. Access Now and our partners have repeatedly called on NSO Group and its investors to stop providing its products (...)
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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything - 18 décembre 2020
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world’s best accurate maps
Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that’s the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places : their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits (...)
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Une usine de fabrication d’iPhone saccagée en Inde, des employés affirment ne pas avoir été payés - 16 décembre 2020
Ce week-end, des milliers de salariés de Wistron, un des principaux fournisseurs d’Apple, se sont regroupés pour manifester sur le site de leur usine en Inde, dans la région de Bengaluru. Ils réclament des salaires impayés et de meilleures conditions de travail, comme le rapporte Reuters. Lorsque la police est arrivée (...)
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Apple supplier Wistron puts India plant damage at up to $7 million - 16 décembre 2020
TAIPEI (Reuters) - The ransacking of an iPhone manufacturing facility in India caused up to T$200 million ($7.12 million) in damage though production facilities were not as badly hit as reported, its Taiwan-based operator Wistron Corp said on Tuesday.
Thousands of contract workers gathered on the grounds of the (...)
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België test camera’s die je beboeten voor filmpje kijken of bellen achter het stuur - 16 décembre 2020
België test camera’s die je beboeten voor filmpje kijken of bellen achter het stuur
Verkeersinstituut Vias test momenteel een nieuw camerasysteem dat registreert of een automobilist achter het stuur met de telefoon in de hand aan het bellen is. Op basis van de beelden kan de politie dan een boete opsturen. Uit de (...)
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U.S. Schools Are Buying Cellebrite Phone-Hacking Tech - 12 décembre 2020
In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by one of the district’s school resource officers. Looking for evidence of a romantic relationship between the student and a teacher, the officer plugged the phone into a Cellebrite UFED to recover deleted (...)
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"Une nation ne peut pas se permettre qu’une puissance étrangère ait la main sur les données de ses citoyens" - 8 décembre 2020
Si Trump a voulu qu’une entreprise américaine rachète Tik Tok, et si l’Irlande demande à Facebook de cesser d’envoyer les données collectées aux États-Unis, c’est que désormais le big data relève de la souveraineté des pays. C’est en tout cas l’avis d’Arnold Zéphir, concepteur d’intelligences artificielles.
Pour justifier sa (...)
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Kashmiris Interrogated, Tortured by Cyber Police for Tweeting - 7 décembre 2020
The crackdown on social media users in Kashmir is part of a sharp escalation of the Indian government’s censorship efforts.
Ahmed was nervous as he approached the fortified police station, its walls covered with barbed wire and gun-toting cops guarding the entrances. The college student had received a phone call (...)
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Google Maps améliore son indicateur de fréquentation pour éviter les lieux d’affluence pendant la pandémie - 4 décembre 2020
Les informations d’affluence en temps réel vont couvrir plus de lieux et les prévisions pourraient gagner en précision.
Face à la pandémie de Covid-19, mieux vaut éviter les lieux d’affluence et privilégier, quand cela est possible, les horaires les plus calmes pour se rendre dans un commerce ou tout autre lieu public. Le (...)
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China’s internet regulator takes aim at forced data collection - 4 décembre 2020
China is a step closer to cracking down on unscrupulous data collection by app developers. This week, the country’s cybersecurity watchdog began seeking comment on the range of user information that apps from instant messengers to ride-hailing services are allowed to collect.
The move follows in the footstep of a (...)
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Apple faces lawsuits in Europe over slowing down older iPhones - 2 décembre 2020
London (CNN Business) Apple is facing new legal action in Europe over its controversial practice of slowing down older iPhones.
Euroconsumers, the advocacy group bringing the action, said in a statement Wednesday that the class-action lawsuits cover up to 2 million iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6S and 6S Plus devices in (...)
