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Spyware has been spotted targeting the phones of journalists, lawyers and television personalities. The Canada-based Citizen Lab and a number of Mexican NGOs identified the spyware’s activities in a recent report. The report uncovers the targeting of 10 Mexican citizens, including journalists, human rights lawyers and public health officials by malware, suspected to be Pegasus […]
VISITING the homes of poor Africans who want to borrow money helps Finca International, an American microfinance firm, weed out likely deadbeats. If an applicant has an indoor toilet, or household gifts from a relative working abroad, that is a good sign. Interviewing neighbours also helps, says Mike Gama-Lobo, who looks after Finca’s operations in […]
Learn about three famous gadgets that are always listening you and how to stop them. Imagine driving down a dark, deserted road when your tire blows out. There’s no one around, but, thankfully, you’re not alone. “Hey, Siri. Call roadside assistance.” A second later, you get a response in a warm and comforting voice, “Calling […]
RingGo Car parking app data breach. The app shared 2000 customers’ private details after company suffers glitch Thousands of users of a parking app may have had their personal details shared with other customers. Around 2,000 customers of the parking app RingGo were presented with other people’s details when they logged into the service. Many […]
WebSites Found collecting data from online forms even before you click submit. During an investigation, Gizmodo has discovered that code from NaviStone used by hundreds of websites, invisibly grabs each piece of information as you fill it out in a web form before you could hit ‘Send’ or ‘Submit.’ NaviStone is an Ohio-based startup that […]
Sensitive personal data exposed accidentally relating to almost 200 million US citizens by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee. The 1.1 terabytes of data includes birthdates, home addresses, telephone numbers and political views of nearly 62% of the entire US population. The data was available on a publicly accessible Amazon cloud server. […]
Netskope Cloud Report: Data loss prevention policy violations in collaboration services like Slack or HipChat are rising. This is according to new Netskope Cloud Report, which also adds that cloud services are generally underprepared for the upcoming GDPR regulation. Just Slack and HipChat are accounting for almost 10 per cent of all violations in the […]
Hackers publish private photos from cosmetic surgery clinic Hackers have published more than 25,000 private photos, including nude pictures, and other personal data from patients of a Lithuanian cosmetic surgery clinic, police say. The images were made public on Tuesday by a hacking group calling themselves “Tsar Team”, which broke into the servers of the […]
An article that presents the idea of beacon tracking and address the danger of processing voice data by hundred of apps. There are plenty of privacy-invading marketing ploys to worry about in life. Some examples are in your face, some are more subtle. And a relatively new kind manages to be outright invisible. In the most […]
Secrets from smart devices find path to US legal system… An Ohio man claimed he was forced into a hasty window escape when his house caught fire last year. His pacemaker data obtained by police showed otherwise, and he was charged with arson and insurance fraud. In Pennsylvania, authorities dismissed rape charges after data from […]
ROME: Italy’s antitrust watchdog said on Friday it was imposing a 3 million-euro ($3.3 million) fine on messaging service Whatsapp for allegedly obliging users to agree to sharing their personal data with its parent company Facebook. All 28 European Union data protection authorities asked Whatsapp last year to stop sharing users’ data with Facebook due […]
Tesla is asking vehicle owners for permission to collect more video data in an effort to “make self-driving a reality,” according to Electrek. The company is also updating its Autopilot software to lift many of the restrictions on how fast you can drive while using its semi-autonomous, hands-free feature. More fleet learning = better self-driving […]
The McDelivery application leak. This app is used by McDonald’s customers in India and it was found to be leaking the personal data of more than 2.2 million users. McDelivery is a web application used by McDonald’s customers in India that was found to be leaking the personal information of more than 2.2 million users. he issue […]
The Facebook Emoticon Experiment ran in 2012 on 689,003 of its own users. More details about the experiments can be found in the link. For a week, Facebook showed people less positive posts in the News Feed, and found they posted 0.1% fewer positive words in their own posts. A more depressing feed led people […]
LOS ANGELES — Can a deleted app keep on tracking you, even if the app is off the phone? The unsatisfying answer: Yes and no. The app can’t follow you around and know your whereabouts. But app developers can engage in “tagging,” leaving behind a unique ID on an iPhone so the developer can recall the apps […]