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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

Ireland is a strategic place for intercontinental communications because it represents the place where undersea cables which carry internet traffic connect to Europe. The data collected by the undersea cable would include content from online messages, browsing sessions, VOIP calls, and emails. ” reported The Sunday Times.

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MY TAKE: Even Google CEO Sundar Pichai agrees that it is imperative to embed ethics into AI

The Last Watchdog

Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched a project to catalog all of the AI ethics declarations made by public and commercial organizations. However, as the data collected by Internet of Things systems gets deeper and richer , the algorithms running AI should get smarter and more accurate.

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Over 100 flaws in management and access control systems expose buildings to hack

Security Affairs

The extent of the flaw is wide, according to data collected by Krstic during the study, the vulnerabilities could impact up to 10 million people and 30,000 doors at 200 facilities. “It is possible to identify exposed systems using search engines like Shodan, and it is feasible to scan the entire IPv4 internet.”

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Privacy predictions 2022

SecureList

We no longer rely on the Internet just for entertainment or chatting with friends. Governments in many countries push for easier identification of Internet users to fight cybercrime, as well as “traditional” crime coordinated online. People and regulators will demand more algorithmic transparency.

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Security experts disclosed Wyze data leak

Security Affairs

The incident was independently verified by the authors of the blog IPVM that focuses on video surveillance products. ” Song pointed out that several of the things reported by Twelve are not true, for example he denied that Wyze sends data to Alibaba Cloud in China. SecurityAffairs – data leak, hacking).

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MY TAKE: Apple users show strong support for Tim Cook’s privacy war against Mark Zuckerberger

The Last Watchdog

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. It’s critical that they openly discuss these fundamental consumer rights.”.

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Privacy predictions 2023

SecureList

In the US, for example, the FTC has requested public comments on the “prevalence of commercial surveillance and data security practices that harm consumers” to inform future legislation. This showed how consumer data collection can directly impact the relationships between citizens and governments.

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