When cameras are talking to the cloud, there’s room for them to make mistakes, and these devices are filming pieces of your private life so that can be a little worrisome.
Source : Smart doorbell owners saw video from other houses thanks to a weird bug | The Verge
Mr. Xi outlined what he described as the two prevalent viewpoints on tech policy in China. Under one, the country would continue with an industrial policy intended to absorb technology from foreign companies and ensure products are “secure and controllable.” That phrase, companies and industry groups said, could include such measures as giving the Chinese government access to systems, providing encryption keys or handing over source code.
Source : China Quietly Targets U.S. Tech Companies in Security Reviews – The New York Times
The agreement gives DeepMind access to a wide range of healthcare data on the 1.6 million patients who pass through three London hospitals run by the Royal Free NHS Trust – Barnet, Chase Farm and the Royal Free – each year. This will include information about people who are HIV-positive, for instance, as well as details of drug overdoses and abortions. The agreement also includes access to patient data from the last five years.
Source : Revealed: Google AI has access to huge haul of NHS patient data | New Scientist
Three new changes in federal court rules have vastly expanded law enforcement’s ability to hack into computers around the world.
Source : So … Now the Government Wants to Hack Cybercrime Victims | WIRED
Hoping to raise concerns about the potential misuses of FindFace, Tsvetkov seems to have inspired a particularly nasty effort to identify and harass Russian women who appear in pornography.
Source : Facial Recognition Service Becomes a Weapon Against Russian Porn Actresses – Global Voices Advocacy
Tinder Social has been rolled out on a trial basis in Australia, but has been met with alarm after users realised the new feature exposes Facebook friends that also use the app.
Websites that detect ad-blockers to stop their users from reading webpages could be illegal under European law.
Source : Ad-blocker blocking websites face legal peril at hands of privacy bods • The Register
Sexual preference. Relationship status. Income. Address. These are just some details applicants for the controversial dating site BeautifulPeople.com are asked to supply before their physical appeal is judged by the existing user base, who vote on who is allowed in to the “elite” club based on looks alone. All of this, of course, is supposed to remain confidential. But much of that supposedly-private information is now public, thanks to the leak of a database containing sensitive data of 1.1 million BeautifulPeople.com users.
Hackers can read text messages, listen to phone calls and track mobile phone users’ locations with just the knowledge of their phone number using a vulnerability in the worldwide mobile phone network infrastructure.
Source : SS7 hack explained: what can you do about it? | Technology | The Guardian
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For government information requests, we report as much detail as we are legally allowed. When we receive an account request from law enforcement requesting a customer’s personal information, we will notify the customer a request concerning their personal data was made unless we are explicitly prohibited from doing so. We are reserving the right to make exceptions, such as for extreme situations when we believe disclosing information could put a child or other person in serious danger, or where notice is not applicable to the underlying facts of the case.
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