Sam Shead reports: France’s data protection regulator, the Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, issued Google and Amazon with substantial fines on Thursday for breaking rules on online advertising trackers, known as cookies. The watchdog ordered Google to pay 100 million euros ($121 million) and Amazon to pay 35 million euros. The CNIL said both companies had breached Article 82 of…
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The untold story of how the Golden State Killer was found: A covert operation and private DNA
Paige St. John reports: The dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said they caught the elusive Golden State Killer— by harnessing genetic technology already in use by millions of consumers to trace their family trees. But the DNA-matching effort that caught one of…
Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built COVID-19 dashboard
This is troubling. Jeffrey Schweers reports from Florida: State police brandishing firearms Monday raided the home of Rebekah Jones, the former Department of Health data scientist who built the state’s much-praised COVID-19 dashboard before being fired over what she said was refusing to “manipulate data.” “They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at…
Sensitive Data Leak From Baidu Apps Allows Lifetime User Tracking According To Researchers
Alicia Hope reports: Palo Alto Network researchers discovered that apps from the Chinese tech company Baidu were leaking sensitive data that could allow lifetime user tracking. Unit 42 researchers used machine learning-based threat detection mechanisms to discover the apps implicated in the sensitive data leak. Americans have downloaded the apps more than 6 million times…