AI Privacy

€20 million fine by CNIL for Clearview AI

CNIL fined Clearview AI with €20 Million for processing data without legal basis and orders to delete data already collected. Clearview AI is an US FacialRecognition company, providing software to companies, law enforcement, universities, and individuals. The company’s algorithm matches faces to a database of more than 20 billion images indexed from the Internet, including […]

Privacy Security

5 Chrome Extensions with 14 million installs steal track users’ browsing activity

All five extensions discovered by McAfee behave with the web app manifest (“manifest.json” file), which dictates how the extension should behave on the system, loads a multifunctional script (B0.js) that sends the browsing data to a domain the attackers control (“langhort[.]com”).The data is delivered through via POST requests each time the user visits a new URL. The info reaching […]

GDPR Privacy

Is Oracle surveilling 5 billion people?

Oracle is an important part of the tracking and data industry. It has claimed to have amassed detailed dossiers on 5 billion people, and generates $42.4 billion in annual revenue. Oracle’s dossiers about people include names, home addresses, emails, purchases online and in the real world, physical movements in the real world, income, interests and […]

Privacy

In-app browser of social media is spying on you

iOS Apps that have their own In-App Browser, but what does it do with your privacy? Does the app: – provide a button to open the currently shown link in the default browser?– inject JavaScript code into third party websites to modify its content? This includes adding tracking code (like inputs, text selections, taps, etc.), […]