Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Former children’s commissioner of England Anne Longfield is suing TikTok on behalf of millions of children in the UK over data collection that Longfield maintains is without sufficient warning and transparency. The post TikTok Sued Over Data Collection of Minors | Avast appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 6, 2023

The data was used to better target advertising in the App Store. These actions are against Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act (DPA), the French law aligned with […]. in France for Data Collecting Issues appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The post Apple Fined $8.0M

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WIRED Threat Level

JUNE 4, 2024

Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.

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The Hacker News

JULY 30, 2024

state of Texas over allegations that it illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission, marking one of the largest penalties levied by regulators against the tech giant. Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S.

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Tech Republic Security

MAY 8, 2020

Governments and organizations are unleashing new technologies to fight the spread of the coronavirus, adding to privacy and data collection concerns.

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TrustArc

JUNE 7, 2023

The post Policy Briefing: UX Dark Patterns in Consent and Data Collection appeared first on TrustArc Privacy Blog. Regulators are cracking down on companies that manipulate and deceive users with UX dark patterns online.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 8, 2022

Meta Platforms, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Friday announced the launch of a centralized Privacy Center that aims to "educate people" about its approach with regards to how it collects and processes personal information across its family of social media apps.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 19, 2023

The post Debunking the Misconception That CRQ Requires a Lot of Data Collection appeared first on Security Boulevard. Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2021

users for illegal data collection. The Chinese firm was accused to have failed to get the users’ consent to collect data in compliance with the Illinois biometric privacy law. The post ByteDance agreed to pay $92M in US privacy Settlement for TikTok data collection appeared first on Security Affairs.

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TrustArc

JUNE 7, 2023

The post Policy Briefing: UX Dark Patterns in Consent and Data Collection appeared first on TrustArc Privacy Blog. Regulators are cracking down on companies that manipulate and deceive users with UX dark patterns online.

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Data collection 52

Tech Republic Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Red Box provides the open architecture for data capture. Uniphore then feeds that data into U-Capture, its conversational AI automation tool.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2024

Authors/Presenters: Lu Zhou, Chengyongxiao Wei, Tong Zhu, Guoxing Chen, Xiaokuan Zhang, Suguo Du, Hui Cao, Haojin Zhu Permalink The post USENIX Security ’23 – POLICYCOMP: Counterpart Comparison of Privacy Policies Uncovers Overbroad Personal Data Collection Practices appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Data collection Education Information Security 51

Zero Day

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world's biggest online platforms collect way more data than previously known and make it very hard for users to opt out.

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Norway wants to permanently ban the owner of Facebook and Instagram from collecting sensitive user data across Europe, saying its current policies violate GDPR rules.

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has sued Google for allegedly collecting and using biometric data belonging to millions of Texans without proper consent. [.].

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 12, 2021

OSINT data collection automation ensures that teams are gathering the most relevant data as quickly and efficiently as possible, while keeping investigations – and investigators – secure. The post OSINT Data Collection: You Still Need Humans, but Automation is Well Worth the Investment appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 31, 2022

In 2020, there was an estimated 59 trillion gigabytes of data in the world. The post The Power of Data Analysis in Threat Intelligence – Part 1: Data Collection and Data Mining first appeared on Digital Shadows. Most of which was created in.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 7, 2023

The FTC has demanded additional data privacy protections for kids using Xbox gaming systems, extending COPPA protections.

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Data collection Data privacy 92

Bleeping Computer

AUGUST 13, 2022

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced that Google was fined $60 million for misleading Australian Android users regarding the collection and use of their location data for almost two years, between January 2017 and December 2018. [.].

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2024

The Incognito splash page will explicitly state that Google collects data from third-party websites “regardless of which browsing or browser mode you use,” and stipulate that “third-party sites and apps that integrate our services may still share information with Google,” among other changes.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

User endpoints generate NVM data with rich and granular device context – such as IP addresses, host and user names, machine types and models, which operating systems and versions are running, the processes that launched network connectivity, MAC addresses, hash information, and more – that is all collected and stored in the Data Store.

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Cisco Security

JUNE 1, 2021

User endpoints generate NVM data with rich and granular device context – such as IP addresses, host and user names, machine types and models, which operating systems and versions are running, the processes that launched network connectivity, MAC addresses, hash information, and more – that is all collected and stored in the Data Store.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 23, 2019

With DoubleClick, Analytics and AdWords under its belt, Google continues dominating when it comes to global data collection for advertising, a new report found.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2019

Many security experts are warning of the risks of using the popular app, threat actors could be potentially interested in data collected by FaceApp. The post Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This is not about mass surveillance of mail , this is about sorts of targeted surveillance the US Postal Inspection Service uses to catch mail thieves : To track down an alleged mail thief, a US postal inspector used license plate reader technology, GPS data collected by a rental car company, and, most damning of all, hid a camera inside one of the (..)

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 21, 2022

France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Clearview AI with €20 million for illegal collection and processing of biometric data belonging to French citizens. [.].

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Dark Reading

OCTOBER 2, 2020

An IT lawyer digs into the implications of collecting biometric data, why it can't be anonymized, and what nations are doing about it.

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Bleeping Computer

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Italy's competition authority (Autorita Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) has announced a fine of 10 million Euros ($11.3 million) against Google and Apple. [.].

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Data collection Technology 74

WIRED Threat Level

JULY 24, 2024

A former Google engineer has built a search engine, WebXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”

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Data collection Engineering 141

Schneier on Security

JANUARY 11, 2021

Some of the data that WhatsApp collects includes: User phone numbers. Diagnostic data collected from app logs. Under the new terms, Facebook reserves the right to share collected data with its family of companies. Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books. Profile names.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Data collection, whether innocuous machine measurements or sensitive and regulated private information, plays a primary role in practically every business that uses the internet and IT infrastructure for business operations.

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Tech Republic Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Microsoft has been granted more time to change how Windows 10 collects data about users in order to comply with the French data protection act.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 27, 2020

According to the Motherboard article, “multiple Avast users… were not aware Avast sold browsing data, raising questions about how informed that consent is.”. The primary method of Avast’s data collection was initially via web browser plugins distributed through subsidiaries such as AVG.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 24, 2024

A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Let’s dive into how organizations can use automation tools to streamline key audit tasks — from data collection and analysis. IT compliance audits often involve time-consuming manual processes, making them error-prone and hindering operational efficiency.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 18, 2024

The post Online Businesses Often Steal And Exploit Customer Data Collected During Cancelled Transactions appeared first on Joseph Steinberg: CyberSecurity Expert Witness, Privacy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Advisor.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How features such as infotainment and driver-assist can give others a leg up on car owners.

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