If this story doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what will. Joseph Cox reports: I didn’t expect it to be that quick. While I was on a Google Hangouts call with a colleague, the hacker sent me screenshots of my Bumble and Postmates accounts, which he had broken into. Then he showed he had received…
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Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on ‘Incognito’ Browsing
Malathi Nayak and Joel Rosenblatt report: Google failed to kill a lawsuit alleging that it secretly scoops up troves of internet data even if users browse in “Incognito” mode to keep their search activity private. The consumers who filed the case as a class action alleged that even when even they turn off data collection in…
Bill Introduced Would Preempt State Laws and Strengthen FTC Enforcement
Kurt Wimmer of Covington & Burling write: As the push for Congress to pass comprehensive consumer privacy legislation increases, Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) has re-introduced the Information Transparency & Personal Data Control Act, a compromise proposal that contains provisions sought by both parties. This bill would create national data privacy standards and increase the enforcement authority…
Criminals arrested after trusting encrypted chat app cracked by police
Graham Cluley reports: Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have made hundreds of raids, and arrested at least 80 people, after cracking into an encrypted phone network used by organised criminals. In a press release, Europol said that crime-fighting authorities in France, Belgium and the Netherlands had not only arrested a large number of suspected criminals,…