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Russian spies are attempting to tap transatlantic undersea cables

Security Affairs

This week, several media reported that agents of the Russian intelligence reportedly went to Ireland to inspect the undersea cables. The data collected by the undersea cable would include content from online messages, browsing sessions, VOIP calls, and emails.

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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. When violations are exposed by the media, as they regularly are, we are all surprised at the different ways Facebook violates user privacy. Better use of Facebook data to prevent violence.

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

SC Magazine

One potential solution, said Daly, is pseudoanonymizing the data collected from workers’ computers. Companies may also want to set policies that limit how much and specifically what employee data is actually collected, while also prohibiting excessive forms of surveillance – especially visual monitoring.

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Confronting the ethics of security and privacy during the pandemic

SC Magazine

On the flip side, their employees had to grapple with the reality that their corporate devices could surveil their activities in their own homes. They have capitulated many of their customers’ surveillance-based demands to capitalize on the increased demand for device surveillance and management software.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Quad9 to move offices to Switzerland, invites other privacy-focused firms to follow

SC Magazine

The company received a finding of law from the Swiss government that it will not be treated as a telecommunications provider, exempting it from laws that would mandate data collection. surveillance and accept GDPR as a global “gold standard” of privacy protections. are wary of U.S.

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Singapore Contact Tracing Wearables Spark Pushback, Petition

SecureWorld News

According to media reports, the non-successful adoption of the Trace Together app can be superceded by the next step that state-sanctioned technological advancements can offer: and this is it.". The petition expresses concern over this device's ability to transform Singapore into a "surveillance state.".