Jason Daley reports: Kassem Fawaz’s brother was on a videoconference with the microphone muted when he noticed that the microphone light was still on—indicating, inexplicably, that his microphone was being accessed. Alarmed, he asked Fawaz, an expert in online privacy and an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, to…
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Calls for HIPAA Lawsuit Follow Dismissal of Charges Against Lizelle Herrera
Note: Any informed reader will already know that HIPAA has no private cause of action. I wish the headline of this news story had not been misleading, but I suppose Newsweek’s editors could say, “Well people did call for it, so we’re reporting it even though it can’t happen.” Andrew Stanton reports: Calls mounted on…
Google must investigate links for false information, says top EU court adviser
Molly Quell reports: If someone asks for links to be removed from Google because they are false, the company must look into the claim, said an adviser to the European Court of Justice in a non-binding opinion issued Thursday. Advocate General Giovanni Pitruzzella found that, when Google is asked to remove something from its search results, it…
Police Records Show Women Are Being Stalked With Apple AirTags Across the Country
Samantha Cole reports: … Motherboard requested records mentioning AirTags in a recent eight month period from dozens of the country’s largest police departments. We obtained records from eight police departments. Of the 150 total police reports mentioning AirTags, in 50 cases women called the police because they started getting notifications that their whereabouts were being…