From EPIC.org: EPIC Senior Counsel Jeramie Scott testified today to Senate and House Committees of the Maryland General Assembly in support of legislation protecting biometric information privacy. HB218 and SB16 are modeled after the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Passed in 2008, BIPA has been referred to as one of the most effective and important privacy laws in America. “Unlike a password or account…
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Bot Lets Hackers Easily Lookup Facebook Users’ Phone Numbers
Joseph Cox reports: A user of a low level cybercriminal forum is selling access to a database of phone numbers belonging to Facebook users, and conveniently letting customers lookup those numbers by using an automated Telegram bot. Although the data is several years old, it still presents a cybersecurity and privacy risk to those whose…
DC residents get visits from FBI as agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol
Joe Cadillic sends me an “I told you this would happen” message as Bruce Leshan reports: If you were anywhere near the Capitol on Jan. 6, you may be getting a knock on your door from the FBI. A D.C. woman said an agent visited her neighbor and called her, telling them investigators were tracking…
This site posted every face from Parler’s Capitol Hill insurrection videos
Andy Greenberg of WIRED reports: When hackers exploited a bug in Parler to download all of the right-wing social media platform’s contents last week, they were surprised to find that many of the pictures and videos contained geolocation metadata revealing exactly how many of the site’s users had taken part in the invasion of the US Capitol…