Twitter has updated its privacy policy so that it can remove images of people that have been posted without their consent. It would require a first-person report or a report from an authorized representative to establish whether or not the individual had consented to it being shared.
Researchers analyzed the security of four popular smartwatches for children and found pre-installed downloaders, weak passwords, and unencrypted data transmissions. The analysis demonstrates that most of these devices arbitrarily collect and periodically transmit sensitive data to remote servers without the user knowing about it.This finding is worrisome as these devices quickly grow in popularity, with […]
UK privacy regulator ICO plans to fine facial recognition company Clearview AI €20 million for violating UK privacy law. Clearview collected photos from Facebook, LinkedIn and other websites for training a facial recognition system. This system contains a database of ten billion collected images, according to the ICO. This allows police services to identify unknown […]
Irish DPC demanded noyb to sign a “non-disclosure agreement” or remove noyb from Facebook procedure. Schrems: “The DPC engaged in procedural blackmail. Only if we shut up, the DPC would ‘grant’ us our legal right to be heard. This is a regulator clearly asking for a ‘quid pro quo’ to do its job, which likely constitutes bribery in Austria.” […]
Apps for Wifi-strength measurement and another to scan barcodes were selling location data without proper consent. It was unclear to users that apps they had downloaded for one purpose were sharing information for a completely different one.
The ruling stated that the devices’ ability to capture conversations at ranges of between 40ft and 68ft away was excessive. The fact remains that anyone with a Ring Doorbell can turn their area of the neighbourhood into a surveilled space due to its video recording functionality and audio processors which are able to pick up […]
Several popular Android phones have been found to collect and share data on a large scale, including with third parties, and users cannot opt out, according to researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Edinburgh. The study https://lnkd.in/eiVzvJj3 examined six variants of the Android operating system, namely those from Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, LineageOS and […]
The Norwegian privacy regulator Datatilsynet has decided on the basis of research not to create a Facebook page because the privacy risks for users are too great. To the best of its knowledge, the regulator is the first organization to have carried out a risk analysis and a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) into the […]
IP cameras from manufacturer Hikvision can be remotely taken over through a serious security vulnerability, after which the underlying network can be attacked. Hikvision has released firmware updates. In addition, the vulnerability is also present in IP cameras that Hikvision manufactures but that other manufacturers offer under their own name. It is unknown if updates […]
The introduction of a corona QR-ticket necessity for access catering, theaters and events with the exception of terraces will be implemented on the 25th of September in The Netherlands following EU countries like France and Italy. The members in favour have great concerns about security, privacy, freedom of choice but think the measure is proportionate […]