Ted Greenberg, who served as a federal prosecutor in the US justice department, and investigated money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud and corruption during his time there, has an OpEd in The Guardian that begins: No one wants their most private activities secretly monitored. That’s why wiretapping is strictly regulated in the US and most of…
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Whoops, our bad, we just may have ‘accidentally’ left Google Home devices recording your every word, sound, sorry
Katyanna Quach reports: In brief: Your Google Home speaker may have been quietly recording sounds around your house without your permission or authorization, it was revealed this week. The Chocolate Factory admitted it had accidentally turned on a feature that allowed its voice-controlled AI-based assistant to activate and snoop on its surroundings. Normally, the device…
SPARTOO: sanction of 250,000 euros and injunction under penalty to comply with the GDPR
From the CNIL, the French data protection authority: SPARTOO is specialized in the online shoe sales sector. For this activity, it has a website accessible in thirteen countries of the European Union. The CNIL inspected the company in May 2018, and noted shortcomings concerning the data of customers, prospects and employees. The President of the CNIL therefore…
Adam Schiff Accused of Protecting a Suspected FBI Surveillance Dragnet
Dell Cameron reports: Nearly a dozen civil liberties organizations have accused Congressman Adam Schiff and other Democratic leaders of purposely undermining the online privacy of U.S. citizens and immigrants; possibly in an effort, they say, to conceal the unlawful surveillance of Americans’ web browsing activity by the FBI’s national security branch. In a letter on Wednesday addressed…