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China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure

Schneier on Security

However, as the app collects a range of highly sensitive medical information, it is unclear with whom or which organization(s) it shares this information. MY2022 includes features that allow users to report “politically sensitive” content.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 3 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

Items presented here are typically curated with the end user and small groups (such as families and small/micro businesses) in mind. Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance Wired Covers the use of powerful surveillance technology in predicting who might be a "threat."

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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. It even collects what it calls " shadow profiles " -- data about you even if you're not a Facebook user. Better use of Facebook data to prevent violence.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 12 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

Items presented here are typically curated with the end user and small groups (such as families and small/micro businesses) in mind. Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news.

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“We will hold them accountable”: General Motors sued for selling customer driving data to third parties

Malwarebytes

It reasons that when consumers buy a vehicle, they want a mode of transportation to get them from one point to another, but with GM (and its subsidiary OnStar) they unwittingly opt-in to an all-seeing surveillance system. The driving data collected and sold by GM included trip details like speed, seatbelt status, and driven distance.

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Stalkerware activity drops as glaring spying problem is revealed

Malwarebytes

It’s spying when governments do it through opaque, mass surveillance regimes, it’s spying when companies do it through shadowy data broker networks that braid together disparate streams of information, and it’s spying when private individuals do it through unseen behavior on personal devices.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 11 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

Items presented here are typically curated with the end user and small groups (such as families and small/micro businesses) in mind. Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news.