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France’s government is giving the police more surveillance power

Security Affairs

The Assemblée Nationale has approved the measure, which forms one of the articles encompassing multiple provisions. ”” reads the article published by Le Monde. ”” reads the article published by Le Monde. “People’s lives will be saved” by the law, he added.”

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Anomaly Six, a US surveillance firm that tracks roughly 3 billion devices in real-time

Security Affairs

An interesting article published by The Intercept reveals the secretive business of a US surveillance firm named Anomaly Six. While Russia was invading Ukraine in February, two unknown surveillance startups, Anomaly Six and Zignal Labs joined forces to provide powerful surveillance services.

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Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream emerges from the dark

Security Affairs

One of the Apple iOS zero-day flaws exploited by the NSO group was also used by another surveillance firm named QuaDream. One of the vulnerabilities in Apple iOS that was previously exploited by the spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group was also separately used by another surveillance firm named QuaDream.

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German authorities raid the offices of the FinFisher surveillance firm

Security Affairs

Earlier this month, German authorities have raided the offices of FinFisher, the German surveillance software firm, accused of providing its software to oppressive regimes. The company denied accusations and sued the German blog and requested the removal of the article on the case. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ross Anderson

Schneier on Security

Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. He was the first person to understand that security problems are often actually economic problems. Okay, he created both—I helped.)

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Encryption: One Of The Most Powerful Ways To Keep Data Private – But Governments Want To Outlaw It

Joseph Steinberg

Surveillance Legislation Amendment , to various chatter emerging from Washington, DC, the rights of ordinary citizens to protect their private conversations, pictures, videos, and files is, sadly, under assault even in ostensibly free countries. Here Is Why It Should Not.

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META hit with privacy complaints by EU consumer groups

Security Affairs

Consumer groups assert that Meta is not adhering to various rules established by the European privacy regulation GDPR: Fair Processing (Article 5(1)(a)): Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently. Purpose Limitation (Article 5(1)(b)): Personal data must be collected for specified, explicit, and legitimate purposes.