Privacy, censorship, & security in the news.
Here are a collection of links to articles I have found about privacy, censorship, and securty that are worth a read! I can't possibly write articles covering all the news on these topics, but I can share some good articles from other websites with you here instead. Note that I occasionally find a decent article from a source I can't stand. In this case, I will run the link through "archive.today" so I don't send the site in question any traffic.
DC AG subpoenas Facebook for data on ALL users that have spread "COVID-19 misinformation"
July 2, 2021
"Unmasking people for wrongthink."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first
July 2, 2021
"Deleting data from Echo Dots—and other IoT devices from Amazon and elsewhere—is hard."
Read full article onArs Technica
Google Play Apps Found to Have Trojans That Steal Facebook Logins and Passwords
July 2, 2021
"Nine Google Play apps have been found to have trojans that steal their users’ Facebook logins and passwords. "
Read full article onTech Times
Supreme Court Narrows Ability to Hold U.S. Corporations Accountable for Facilitating Human Rights Abuses Abroad
July 1, 2021
"People around the world have been horrified at the role that technology companies like Cisco, Yahoo!, and Sandvine have played in helping governments commit gross human rights abuses. That’s why EFF has consistently called out technology companies, and American companies in particular, that allow..."
Read full article onElectronic Frontier Foundation
Zero day for every supported Windows OS version in the wild — PrintNightmare
July 1, 2021
"zhiniang peng tweeted out a proof of concept exploit and explainer recently, and then quickly deleted it. This exploit and discussion…"
Read full article onMedium
Intuit to Share Payroll Data from 1.4M Small Businesses With Equifax – Krebs on Security
July 1, 2021
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Read full article onkrebsonsecurity.com
Facebook bans propaganda expert Professor Nicholas O’Shaughnessy
July 1, 2021
"A lifetime ban."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Mobile Driver’s Licenses Pave the Way for Unified Digital IDs - Activist Post
July 1, 2021
"Of course, the “pandemic” is credited for accelerating adoption of digital technologies. How convenient!"
Read full article onActivist Post
LinkedIn’s 1.2B Data-Scrape Victims Already Being Targeted by Attackers
July 1, 2021
"A refined database of 88K U.S. business owners on LinkedIn has been posted in a hacker forum."
Read full article onthreatpost.com
Google Admits AI Assistant Records Audio Secretly: Report
July 1, 2021
"Google reportedly admitted that Assistant records audio even when you're not using it. "
Read full article onTech Times