Claire Fahy reports: WW International, the weight-loss organization formerly known as Weight Watchers, used an app to illegally collect personal information from children without their parents’ permission, the Federal Trade Commission said. A complaint filed Friday by the Justice Department on behalf of the commission said that WW and its pediatric weight-loss app, Kurbo, violated…
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No reasonable expectation of privacy in Twitter account closed for violating TOS for child porn
Seen at FourthAmendment.com: Twitter deactivated defendant’s account for violation of its terms of service and reported him to NCMEC. Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in the files Twitter had preserved on him. “The Court finds under the circumstances of the case and in light of Twitter’s express zero tolerance policy for child sexual…
“Alexa, hack yourself” – researchers describe new exploit that turns smart speakers against themselves
Graham Cluley reports: Researchers have discovered a novel way of exploiting Amazon Echo smart speakers to perform commands. They get the Amazon Echo speaker to say the commands to itself. In a technical paper, researchers from London’s Royal Holloway University in London and the University of Catania in Italy describe their findings, which exploits how an…
Who Is Policing the Location Data Industry?
Who Is Policing the Location Data Industry? Google and Apple have tried to crack down, but location data brokers are moving to a new way to collect your whereabouts that’s much harder to detect By: Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan There is an estimated $12 billion market of companies that buy and sell location data collected…