Don't let Santa steal your data!
Privacy
The approaching holidays offer plenty of opportunities for the surveillance industry to collect more data on us: Bad Santa: Amazon, Facebook top Mozilla's naughty list of privacy-crushing gifts for more detail, check here: How creepy is that smart speaker, that fitness tracker, those wireless headphones?
And once they have the data, they fail to secure it:
Go read this look into how Amazon failed to secure customer personal data
South Korea Is Giving Millions of Photos to Facial Recognition Researchers
Here are some interesting ways to fight back
A newWorkplace monitoring is everywhere. Here’s how to stop algorithms ruling your office
DuckDuckGo tool is supposed to prevent apps from tracking Android users
Boffins find way to use a standard smartphone to find hidden spy cams
Unfortunately, Facebook Messenger and Instagram may not get default end-to-end encryption until 2023
And while not actually a privacy issue, the attitude demonstrated here is disappointing, to say the least: Apple just provided the perfect example of why you can’t trust App Store review scores
Security
More news about consumer data hacks:
DOJ charges two Iranian hackers for threatening US voters during 2020 election
US education software company exposed personal data of 1.2M students
Hackers used this software flaw to steal credit card details from thousands of online retailers
Amazingly, Too Many Data Breach Victims Respond by Doing Nothing
While not actually a data breach, still an annoying security problem: Tesla app outage locked some owners out of their cars
As Hacking Fingerprints Is Actually Pretty Easy—and Cheap, will we have to give up on touch-id?
Regulation
Who Owns Your Data? Calif. Congresswomen Try Again With Online Privacy Act
And Ohio suing Facebook, says it misled the public about the effect its products have on children
In Europe,
Adviser to EU’s top court suggests German bulk data retention law isn’t legal
EU’s data protection adviser latest to call for ban on tracking ads
Why did Apple change its mind on Right to Repair - to avoid stricter regulation!