It's their word against their source code, and other privacy and security news

Privacy

It’s their word against their source code – TikTok report Another form of “do you believe me or your own eyes?”

It looks like the government is using commercial data to bypass legal requirements for search

• Today I learned Amazon has a form so police can get my data without permission or a warrant

• DHS bought “shocking amount” of warrantless phone-tracking data, ACLU says

Google Is Taking Android Devs at Their Word When It Comes to Data Usage given history this isn’t likely to work well!

Security

A ransomware attack on a debt collection firm is one of 2022’s biggest health data breaches

Every new technology creates new risks – deep fakes are coming: The next big security threat is staring us in the face. Tackling it is going to be tough

Security flaws in GPS trackers can be abused to cut off fuel to vehicles, CISA warns – the curse of the deep supply chain!

Regulation

The feds are finally starting to look at data privacy:

• FTC says it will pursue companies that exploit location and health data

• FCC Wants to Know if US Carriers Are Exposing Users' Geolocation Data

As usual, tho, the real traction is in Europe:

• Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks

• Google faces fresh antitrust probe in Italy after data portability complaint

• Amazon offers to limit use of merchant data in bid to settle EU antitrust probe

• Selfie scraping Clearview AI hit with another €20M ban order in Europe