Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. Here’s the Consumer Reports study.
Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.
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Schneier on Security
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired that same private detective to put you under surveillance, I would get a different report: where you went, whom you talked to, what you purchased, what you did. Before the internet, putting someone under surveillance was expensive and time-consuming.
CyberSecurity Insiders
MAY 3, 2021
As per the report on CNN, this public surveillance program will be carried out by Department of Homeland Security and will be done by collaborating with private companies, mainly those belonging to technology sector. The post Data Privacy threat to Americans from Biden government appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.
BH Consulting
MAY 25, 2023
The origins of this case date back nearly a decade following controversies around US Government surveillance and leaks from the now infamous whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Over the years, we saw two cross-border data sharing agreements invalidated. Meta wasnât using these measures and instead was sending data in the clear.
Malwarebytes
MAY 31, 2021
In the UK, a Watchdog would rather police â reasonably use â biometrics and surveillance, as opposed to a complete ban. The facial recognition company, frequently in the news even when they may not have been involved, find themselves at the heart of the facial recognition media storm currently playing out.
Security Affairs
MAY 22, 2023
billion for transferring user data to the US. This is the biggest fine since the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Union (EU) on May 25, 2018. In the past, the social media giant Meta threatened to block its services for users in Europe without a legal basis for data transfers.
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