Étiquette : privacy (Page 2 of 43)

Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The FBI, an FBI Inquiry Found

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“When The New York Times reported in April that a contractor had purchased and deployed a spying tool made by NSO, the contentious Israeli hacking firm, for use by the U.S. government, White House officials said they were unaware of the contract and put the F.B.I. in charge of figuring out who might have been using the technology. After an investigation, the F.B.I. uncovered at least part of the answer: It was the F.B.I.”

Source : Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The FBI, an FBI Inquiry Found. – The New York Times

Concerns over DNS Blocking. June 23, 2023 | by Vinton Cerf

“The proposed Article 35 of the Military Planning Law gives ANSSI the authority to install “technical markers” — hardware and software enabling the collection of user data on the networks of electronic communications operators and data center operators. This provision would grant ANSSI the authority to install surveillance capabilities in private data centers without due process, posing a grave risk to the civil liberties of both French and global Internet users. This appears to be in conflict not only with EU law but also with the OECD Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities, which seeks to ensure that “government access should be carried out in a manner that is not excessive in relation to the legitimate aims and in accordance with legal standards of necessity, proportionality, reasonableness and other standards that protect against the risk of misuse and abuse, as set out in and interpreted within the country’s legal framework.””

Source : Concerns over DNS Blocking. June 23, 2023 | by vinton cerf | Jun, 2023 | Medium

Google forced to postpone Bard chatbot’s EU launch over privacy concerns

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“Google will have to postpone starting its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard in the European Union after its main data regulator in the bloc raised privacy concerns. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Tuesday that the tech giant had so far provided insufficient information about how its generative AI tool protects Europeans’ privacy to justify an EU launch. The Dublin-based authority is Google’s main European data supervisor under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). « Google recently informed the Data Protection Commission of its intention to launch Bard in the EU this week, » said Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle. The watchdog « had not had any detailed briefing nor sight of a data protection impact assessment or any supporting documentation at this point. »”

Source : Google forced to postpone Bard chatbot’s EU launch over privacy concerns – POLITICO

Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption

“Security experts have long said that any potential backdoors into encrypted communications or ways to decrypt services would undermine the overall security of the encryption. If law enforcement officials have a way to decipher messages, criminal hackers or those working on behalf of governments could exploit the same capabilities.”

Source : Leaked EU Document Shows Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption | WIRED

TikTok Tracked Users Who Watched Gay Content, Prompting Employee Complaints

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“At TikTok, the company organizes all the videos its users post into a web of clusters, sorted by topics, the former TikTok employees said. The clusters span the universe of TikTok videos, including ones named: mainstream female, alt female, southeastern black male, and coastal, white-collar male. Each cluster includes subgroups; for alt female, those included tattoos, some lesbian content, and “Portland.” A cluster about professional basketball, for example, had subgroups about the Golden State Warriors, and star player Steph Curry. TikTok tracked the categories of content and users on its app in an effort to understand trends and find ways to boost engagement, some of the former employees said. Some TikTok employees could view the unique identification numbers of the users associated with each cluster, as well as the list of users who were watching videos in each cluster. Additionally, employees could look up users based on their ID number—a series of numbers each TikTok user is given when they start watching videos on the app—to see what cluster they were associated with, according to some of the former employees.”

Source : TikTok Tracked Users Who Watched Gay Content, Prompting Employee Complaints – WSJ

Google Chrome emergency update fixes first zero-day of 2023

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“Google has released an emergency Chrome security update to address the first zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks since the start of the year. « Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2023-2033 exists in the wild, » the search giant said in a security advisory published on Friday. The new version is rolling out to users in the Stable Desktop channel, and it will reach the entire user base over the coming days or weeks. Chrome users should upgrade to version 112.0.5615.121 as soon as possible, as it addresses the CVE-2023-2033 vulnerability on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.”

Source : Google Chrome emergency update fixes first zero-day of 2023

FBI warns of public phone chargers: What to know about juice jacking

“To avoid being a victim in the first place, Coulson encourages adopting newer USB technology (such as USB C) or purchasing charging-only cables, which don’t allow data extraction. Wireless chargers are a more secure option, Chugh said, with instances of tampering on such devices “pretty much nonexistent.” When you plug a smartphone into a USB port, it also might ask whether you trust the device you’ve connected to. That’s a signal that the USB could be doing more than just charging. Unless you’ve connected to your personal computer, you should say no, experts say.”

Source : FBI warns of public phone chargers: What to know about juice jacking – The Washington Post

Géolocalisation de scooters de location : sanction de 125 000 euros à l’encontre de CITYSCOOT

“La CNIL a contrôlé la société CITYSCOOT dont l’activité est la location de scooters pour une courte durée. Les vérifications portaient notamment sur les données collectées ainsi que sur l’information et le recueil du consentement des utilisateurs avant d’inscrire et de lire des informations sur leur équipement terminal de communication électronique. Lors du contrôle, la CNIL a constaté qu’au cours de la location d’un scooter par un particulier, la société collectait des données relatives à la géolocalisation du véhicule toutes les 30 secondes. En outre, la société conservait l’historique de ces trajets.”

Source : Géolocalisation de scooters de location : sanction de 125 000 euros à l’encontre de CITYSCOOT | CNIL

Tesla Employees Reportedly Passed Around Images Of Crashes, Road Rage And Owners’ Kids Taken By Car Cameras

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“Between 2019 and 2022, recordings of Tesla owners were privately shared via the company’s internal messaging system, catching customers naked, showing their kids and sometimes revealing their locations, nine ex-employees told Reuters. Some of the images were reportedly turned into memes featuring customers’ dogs and funny road signs, while others depicted car crashes and road-rage incidents, including one video of a Tesla crashing into a child riding a bike—but many were distributed to scores of employees.”

Source : Tesla Employees Reportedly Passed Around Images Of Crashes, Road Rage And Owners’ Kids Taken By Car Cameras

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“It is a huge thing, and therefore it is important to distinguish what we are talking about. One of the insights in my research at the Max Planck Institute is that if you have a situation that is stable and well defined, then complex algorithms such as deep neural networks are certainly better than human performance. Examples are [the games] chess and Go, which are stable. But if you have a problem that is not stable—for instance, you want to predict a virus, like a coronavirus—then keep your hands off complex algorithms. [Dealing with] the uncertainty—that is more how the human mind works, to identify the one or two important cues and ignore the rest. In that type of ill-defined problem, complex algorithms don’t work well. I call this the “stable world principle,” and it helps you as a first clue about what AI can do. It also tells you that, in order to get the most out of AI, we have to make the world more predictable. […]
Think about a coffee house in your hometown that serves free coffee. Everyone goes there because it is free, and all the other coffee houses get bankrupt. So you have no choice anymore, but at least you get your free coffee and enjoy your conversations with your friends. But on the tables are microphones and on the walls are video cameras that record everything you say, every word, and to whom, and send it off to analyze. The coffee house is full of salespeople who interrupt you all the time to offer you personalized products. That is roughly the situation you are in when you are on Facebook, Instagram or other platforms. [Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, declined to comment.] In this coffee house, you aren’t the customer. You are the product. So we want to have a coffee house where we are allowed again to pay [for] ourselves, so that we are the customers.”

Source : A Psychologist Explains How AI and Algorithms Are Changing Our Lives – WSJ

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