Trishla Ostwal reports: The government body of the European Union, the European Commission, is facing a lawsuit over an alleged data breach related to transferring personal data from Europe to the U.S. The lawsuit—now admitted by the General Court of the European Union (EGC)—alleges the use of Amazon Web Services, the use of Facebook login…
Security flaws in a popular GPS tracker are exposing a million vehicle locations
Zack Whittaker reports: Security vulnerabilities in a popular Chinese-built GPS vehicle tracker can be easily exploited to track and remotely cut the engines of at least a million vehicles around the world, according to new research. Worse, the company that makes the GPS trackers has made no effort to fix them. Cybersecurity startup BitSight said…
Zuckerberg to Testify Over Cambridge Analytica Data Breach
Corinne Reichert reports: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify in a lawsuit over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data breach. Current COO Sheryl Sandberg, who is leaving Meta in the fall, has also been asked to provide testimony, as reported earlier Wednesday by Gizmodo. Zuckerberg will be deposed for up to 6 hours and Sandberg for 5 hours in September,…
Preliminary reactions to American Data Privacy Protection Act revised draft — EFF
Seen on Twitter yesterday, some preliminary thoughts by EFF on ADPPA revisions: First, the bill would override many kinds of state privacy laws. EFF opposes rolling back state privacy protections to meet a lower federal standard. https://t.co/S2yNk5NyHw — EFF (@EFF) July 20, 2022 Today, @RepAnnaEshoo proposed an amendment to protect states’ abilities to build on…