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Android 11 to clamp down on background location access

February 25, 2020 0 Comments Android, android 11, Apple, background location, Google, iOS, location data, Mobile, Operating Systems, Privacy

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:51:53 +0000

Is Android finally about to get on top of the issue of apps that quietly suck up location data?<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/pgha-yLJwm8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google stops indexing WhatsApp chats; other search engines still at it

February 25, 2020 0 Comments chat, data loss, facebook, Google, group chat, invite code, online privacy, Privacy, private chat groups, search engine, security threats, Social networks, whatsapp, whatsapp groups

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 17:51:22 +0000

Private chat invites aren’t meant to be unfindable, Facebook says, though a snippet of code eventually shielded them from Google indexing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/De9SWjTWYs0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Smart speakers mistakenly eavesdrop up to 19 times a day

February 25, 2020 0 Comments Alexa, amazon, Apple, Cortana, echo dot, Google, Google Assistant, harmon kardon invoke, HomePod, Machine Learning, Microsoft, Privacy, Siri, smart speakers

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:47:17 +0000

That smart home speaker isn’t listening to everything you say, according to new research – but it is listening a lot more than it should.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/J0yh5jhzK8w” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google denies illegally slurping data off free student Chromebooks

February 25, 2020 0 Comments chromebook, contacts, Coppa, data collection, docs, drive, edtech, education technology, g suite, g suite for education, geolocation, gmail, Google, google education, hector balderas, internet history, Law & order, lawsuit, minors, new mexico, parental consent, Privacy, search engine records, sheet, student data, students, unfair practices act, voice recordings

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:22:04 +0000

Nonsense! says Google in response to a lawsuit filed by New Mexico’s AG, which accuses Google of violating COPPA’s child privacy laws.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cvVZ0VW5JqY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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SSL/TLS certificate validity chopped down to one year by Apple’s Safari

February 25, 2020 0 Comments Apple, Apple Safari, ca/browser forum, certificate authorities, Cryptography, Google, https, Privacy, Safari, security threats, sha-1, ssl/tls, TLS, tls certificates, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:42:33 +0000

From 1 September 2020, Safari will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificates with more than a year on the clock.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cpkLvAwmg9A” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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KidsGuard stalkerware leaks data on secretly surveilled victims

February 24, 2020 0 Comments breach, clevguard, cyberstalking, data breach, data loss, kidsguard, mobiispy, mobile spyware, mspy, PII, Privacy, security threats, spying, spying app, spyware, Stalkerware, stalking, stalking apps, surveillance, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:28:57 +0000

The company left a server open and unprotected, regurgitating private data slurped from thousands of surveilled people, including children.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/F2UPHduG6YE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple chops Safari’s TLS certificate validity down to one year

February 24, 2020 0 Comments Apple, Apple Safari, ca/browser forum, certificate authorities, Cryptography, Google, https, Privacy, Safari, security threats, sha-1, ssl/tls, TLS, tls certificates, Web Browsers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 11:42:33 +0000

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Washington state Senate passes bill to rein in facial recognition

February 21, 2020 0 Comments bill, biometrics, facial recognition, Law & order, law enforcement, legislation, Privacy, privacy law, seattle, senate bill 6280, washington

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:12:47 +0000

The bill now goes to the House, which has a stiffer competing bill pending that would call for a 3.5 year moratorium.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/EQuUOXoeqVU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage

February 19, 2020 0 Comments amazon s3, amazon simple storage service (s3) bucket, Amazon web services, amazon web services (aws) storage bucket, Android, AWS, breach, CCPA, Cloud, cloud storage, credit card fraud, data breach, data leak, data loss, exposed database, financial fraud, identity theft, iOS, leak, Mobile, personally identifiable information, phishing, photo apps, photosquared, PII, port scanning, Privacy, s3 database, security threats, vpnMentor, web mapping

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:49:20 +0000

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/v6L-VwD68-Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook asks to be regulated kinda like a newspaper, kinda like telco

February 19, 2020 0 Comments content moderation, european commission, extremist content, facebook, fake news, harms regulation, Law & order, Mark Zuckerberg, political advertising, Privacy, regulations, regulators, rules for the internet, Social networks, uk

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:37:17 +0000

Zuckerberg is in Brussels right in time for the European Commission’s release of its manifesto on regulating AI.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vD36QJcf5Ls” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>