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Australian Defense Department will replace surveillance cameras from Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua

Security Affairs

Australia’s Defense Department announced that they will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms linked to the government of Beijing. Australia’s Defense Department is going to replace surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua, who are linked to the government of Beijing. Mao said. “We

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Commercial Location Data Used to Out Priest

Schneier on Security

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data. A growing market of data brokers that collect and sell data from countless apps has made it so that anyone with a bit of cash and effort can figure out which phone in a so-called anonymized dataset belongs to a target, and abuse that information.

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LLM Summary of My Book Beyond Fear

Schneier on Security

Human psychology and biases lead to exaggerated fears that politicians/marketers can exploit, resulting in wasteful and theatrical “security theater.” Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Focus only on proportional responses.

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5G Security

Schneier on Security

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. Often, the task will be somewhere in between these two extremes. What's more, U.S.

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Data broker sued for allegedly selling individuals' sensitive location data

Malwarebytes

And, while the name Kochava may not ring any bells, it actually has a sizeable footprint in the data collection industry. In its own words, Kochava is the industry leader for mobile app attribution and mobile app analytics, and its platform provides a comprehensive set of measurement and targeting tools for app marketers.

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

And if you read his 3,000-word post carefully, Zuckerberg says nothing about changing Facebook's surveillance capitalism business model. All the post discusses is making private chats more central to the company, which seems to be a play for increased market dominance and to counter the Chinese company WeChat.

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Security pros struggle to balance monitoring of remote workforces with privacy expectations

SC Magazine

Right now, we all have a view into your personal life that we’ve really never had… before the pandemic,” said Jonathan Daly, chief marketing office at workforce security company Dtex, which sponsored the research and its corresponding report. If anything, the tracking of employees working from home has actually created new challenges.