Employee monitoring risks ‘spiraling out of control,’ union group warns

Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2022 04:40:00 -0800

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Biden wants stronger privacy protections, no targeted ads for children

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:48:01 +0000

During his SOTU speech, President Biden highlights teen mental health, privacy on children’s data, and targeted ads.

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Covid app’s privacy information ruled not clear enough

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 21:58:25 +0000

The UK’s data watchdog has issued a reprimand to both the Scottish government and NHS National Services Scotland about their COVID Status app

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“Ethnicity recognition” tool listed on surveillance camera app store built by fridge-maker’s video analytics startup

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 23:37:51 +0000

A video analytics startup has built an app store for unproven facial recognition tools that can be loaded onto surveillance cameras.

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Facebook sued for siphoning facial recognition data without consent

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:12:18 +0000

The suit alleges that Facebook’s now-defunct photo-tagging feature illegally collected data about Texans, including non-Facebook users.

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Roblox Beamers steal items from kids

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 16:51:24 +0000

We take a look at a story regarding so-called “Beamers”, who use a number of techniques to compromise and then sell Roblox items.

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City: Skylines developers warn of rogue mod

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:32:19 +0000

We take a look at claims by the developers of City: Skylines that a mod contained rogue elements and should be removed immediately.

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Twitter cans 2FA service provider over surveillance claims

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 21:29:40 +0000

Twitter is changing its 2FA service provider after allegations emerged that it sold access to its networks to surveillance companies.

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