Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Bush in the wake of the September 11 attacks, but had been phased out by the NSA between 2018 and 2019 after disuse and technical issues had rendered the data collected unusable. . “[T]he The post NSA Mass Surveillance Program Is Ruled Illegal appeared first on Adam Levin. The ruling from the 9th U.S.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. Already problems are being discovered. And this wasn't the first reporting to find issues in 5G protocols and implementations. What's more, U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

We know this thanks to a report put out by New York University’s AI Now Institute in December 2019. Law enforcement, for instance, drew criticism for using a controversial facial recognition app — Clearview AI — to surveil citizens turning out to protest the George Floyd murder.

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SecureList

MARCH 13, 2024

In most countries around the world, use of stalkerware is currently not prohibited, but installing a surveillance application on another person’s smartphone without their consent is illegal and punishable. Nevertheless, iPhone users fearing surveillance should always keep a close eye on their device.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 8, 2021

Harvard business professor Dr. Shoshana Zuboff lays out how and why control of online privacy has become a linchpin to the current state of wealth distribution in her 2019 New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 28, 2021

But it did say how it de-anonymized aggregated data to correlate Grindr app usage with a device that appears to be Burrill’s phone. The publication zeroed in on addresses where Burrill was known to frequent and singled out a device identifier that appeared at those locations.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

SAP Patch Day – July 2019 addresses a critical flaw in Diagnostics Agent. CVE-2019-6342 flaw allows hackers to fully compromise Drupal 8.7.4 Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Paper Copy.

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