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Russia says US hacked thousands of Apple phones in spy plot

Guy Faulconbridge, Reuters

12 June 2023

MOSCOW, June 1 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software.

What your smart TV knows about you – and how to stop it harvesting data

lakon

13 February 2022

Modern TVs gather data that can be monetised. How much of this surveillance can you avoid without turning your smart TV dumb?

Finnish diplomats were targeted by Pegasus spyware, says foreign ministry

lakon

02 February 2022

Finland's government says the mobile devices of its diplomats have been hacked using Pegasus spyware.

Snowden Comments on Pandora Papers Saying Offshore Companies Still Compiling Secret Databases

lakon

06 October 2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Former US intelligence officer and whistleblower Edward Snowden who leaked classified information on digital surveillance programs, says offshore companies still compile secret databases, despite leaks such as the Pandora Papers.

Google accused of ''illegally'' tracking Android users

lakon

19 April 2021

The AAID is unique to all Android devices and can be shared with third parties for more effective targeted advertising

EU Parliament says sensitive data of 1,200 officials left exposed on web

Laurens Cerulus

21 May 2020

The information includes sensitive information and encrypted passwords.

Researchers Find 'Anonymized' Data Is Even Less Anonymous Than We Thought

Karl Bode

09 April 2020

Corporations love to pretend that 'anonymization' of the data they collect protects consumers. Studies keep showing that’s not really true.

Facial recognition firm sued for scraping 3 billion faceprints

nakedsecurity.sophos.com

07 April 2020

New York facial recognition startup Clearview AI – which has amassed a huge database of more than three billion images scraped from employment sites, news sites, educational sites, and social networks including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram and Venmo – is being sued in a potential class action lawsuit that claims the company gobbled up photos out of “pure greed” to sell to law...

Clearview AI hit with cease-and-desist from Google, Facebook over facial recognition collection

Alfred Ng, Steven Musil

07 April 2020

In an interview with CBS This Morning, Clearview AI's founder says it's his right to collect photos for the facial recognition app.

Data retention: “National security” is not a blank cheque

Laureline Lemoine

28 March 2020

On 15 January, Advocate General (AG) Campos Sánchez-Bordona of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered his opinions on four cases regarding data retention regimes in France, Belgium and the UK, in the context of these Members States’ surveillance programmes.

The man who got rich on data - years before Google

Tim Harford

07 March 2020

Amazon, Alphabet, Alibaba, Facebook, Tencent - five of the world's 10 most valuable companies, all less than 25 years old - and all got rich, in their own ways, on data.

Amazon gains free access to NHS health data

Absent Mia

18 January 2020

In the framework of an agreement with the Government, h Amazon will be able to have free access to health data, collected by the NHS.

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