This is not over until it is over. The cybercrime treaty forces signers to potentially break their own laws and criminalize actions that are legal in their own country if a foreign government asks them to. It requires governments to hand over data about their citizens such as, and certainly not limited to, a citizen’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]10.03.25 Security News Bites Flock Surveillance Camera Network CEO Says Privacy is Not his Problem Flock Safety is the operator of a nationwide network of surveillance cameras that read and correlate license plates wherever they may be. Cops and pretty much anyone else whose check clears can participate. The feds use it to track people […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Switzerland has been known for being a privacy haven for decades. For years it wouldn’t even reveal banking information to law enforcement except under really limited conditions. That is now distant history. But now Switzerland is joining countries like Russia and China and instituting the ability to mass surveil its population (and even foreigners who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Although how they did it is slightly different, Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other apps and Yandex, a Russian company that offers Google-like services, both figured out that just because a user said don’t track me didn’t mean that it applies to them. Rather than sending cookie data back to Meta and Yandex, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Texas AG sued Google claiming that they were violating Texas laws by misrepresenting what incognito mode means (it reduces visibility of your browsing ONLY ON YOUR COMPUTER, not on the Internet, your Internet provider or to web sites) and for its use of location data and biometrics. While a billion dollars to Google is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hard coded secrets are things like passwords and API keys that are hard coded into “apps” for anyone to find. Generally considered a bad thing. 🙂 Cybernews researched more than 150,000 iOS apps and found more than 815,000 secrets. This includes thousands that are sensitive. Secrets that could lead to breaches. Now that this information […]
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