Amazon’s Ring Neighbors App Exposed Users’ Precise Locations and Home Addresses
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
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Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal
Hackers break into databases, steal their content, hold it for ransom for 9 days, and then sell to the highest bidder if the DB owner doesn’t want to pay the ransom demand.
New Lawsuit: Why Do Android Phones Mysteriously Exchange 260mb A Month With Google Via Cellular Data When They’re Not Even In Use?
Ad giant sued after mobile allowances eaten by hidden transfers.
Bot Generated Fake Nudes of Over 100,000 Women Without Their Knowledge, Says Report
Around 104,852 women had their photos uploaded to a bot, on the WhatsApp-like text messaging app Telegram, which were then used to generate computer-generated fake nudes of them without their knowledge or consent, researchers revealed on Tuesday.
Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras
Facebook Inc. is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras.
‘Stalkerware’ Phone Spying Apps Have Escaped Google’s Ad Ban
Several companies offering phone-spying apps — known as “stalkerware” — are still advertising in Google search results, despite the search giant’s ban that took effect today, TechCrunch has found.
Police Use of Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights, UK Court Rules
Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held.
Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads
Twitter’s use of the data for advertising purposes was discovered in 2019.
Texting App with Ties to Trump Campaign to Be Repurposed for Contact Tracing
A mobile app once used by the Trump campaign and other partisan interests has been rebranded and is now part of an “approved” national app database specifically designed for use by public health and safety agencies.
Why Did a Tech Executive Install 1,000 Security Cameras Around San Francisco?
Chris Larsen knows that a crypto mogul spending his own money for a city’s camera surveillance system might sound creepy. He’s here to explain why it’s not.
Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data
The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.”
US Senate Amends EARN IT Act — To Transfer the Fight Over Section 230 to the States to Let Them Restrict Encryption
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the amended version on July 2.
IBM’s New Differential Privacy Library Works With Just a Single Line of Code
On Friday, IBM Research updated their open source “IBM Differential Privacy Library,” a suite of new lightweight tools offering “an array of functionality to extract insight and knowledge from data with robust privacy guarantees.”
Facial Recognition Bill Would Ban Use By Federal Law Enforcement (VIDEO)
The bill would also make federal funding for state and local law enforcement contingent on the enactment of similar bans.
Congress Has No Idea How Much Web Browsing Data the FBI Collects
The Patriot Act is about to be reauthorized, but we still don’t know basic facts about how our web browsing habits are being collected.