February 3, 2021 – Technology company Clearview AI’s scraping of billions of images of people from across the Internet represented mass surveillance and was a clear violation of the privacy rights of Canadians, an investigation has found. The joint investigation by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec,…
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A Spyware Vendor Seemingly Made a Fake WhatsApp to Hack Targets
Hope nobody I know fell into this trap. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai and Joseph Cox have a very important report: Hackers tried to trick iPhone users into installing a fake version of WhatsApp in a potential attempt to gather information about them. Technical analyses by both researchers from digital rights watchdog Citizen Lab and Motherboard suggest that…
Belgian DPA imposes €50,000 Fine on Family Service
The BE DPA has just imposed a fine of 50,000 euro on the company Family Service, which distributes “pink boxes” well known by mothers and fathers-to-be in Belgium, for various breaches of the GDPR. Family Service is a marketing company that distributes pink boxes that include samples, special offers and information sheets for future parents….
Lawmakers press NSA for answers about Juniper hack from 2015
Justin Katz reports: A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the National Security Agency to account for its part in the five-year-old breach of Juniper Networks, following a congressional investigation of the company last year. “The American people have a right to know why NSA did not act after the Juniper hack to protect…