Kashmir Hill reports: In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine and images of the devastation wrought there flooded the news, Hoan Ton-That, the chief executive of the facial recognition company Clearview AI, began thinking about how he could get involved. He believed his company’s technology could offer clarity in complex situations in the war. “I remember seeing…
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Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country
Samantha Cole reports: … Motherboard requested records mentioning AirTags in a recent eight month period from dozens of the country’s largest police departments. We obtained records from eight police departments. Of the 150 total police reports mentioning AirTags, in 50 cases women called the police because they started getting notifications that their whereabouts were being…
NSO hacked new Pegasus victims weeks after Apple sought injunction
Zack Whittaker reports: Investigators say they have found evidence that a Jordanian journalist and human rights defender’s iPhone was hacked with the Pegasus spyware just weeks after Apple sued the spyware’s maker NSO Group to stop it from targeting Apple’s customers. Award-winning journalist Suhair Jaradat’s phone was hacked with the notorious spyware as recently as December…
UPDATE: CNIL orders three controllers to comply with GDPR after decision that using Google Analytics is illegal
noyb reports: Only two weeks after the groundbreaking decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) ordered three French websites to comply with the GDPR. All these decisions are based on noyb’s 101 model complaints which were filed after the…