Étiquette : privacy (Page 37 of 46)

9 mai 2016 / noflux

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

So … Now the Government Wants to Hack Cybercrime Victims | WIRED

8 mai 2016 / noflux

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

2 mai 2016 / noflux

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

2 mai 2016 / noflux

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.

Source : Tinder launches group dating feature – and exposes you to Facebook friends | Technology | The Guardian

27 avril 2016 / noflux

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

26 avril 2016 / noflux

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.

Source : BeautifulPeople.com Leaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters — And It’s All For Sale – Forbes

20 avril 2016 / noflux

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

19 avril 2016 / noflux

Apple takes our commitment to protecting your data very seriously and we work incredibly hard to deliver the most secure hardware, software and services available. We also believe every customer has a right to understand how their personal information is handled.
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.

Source : Report on Government Information Requests – Apple

19 avril 2016 / noflux

When it comes to doing the right thing in difficult situations, BlackBerry’s guiding principle has been to do what is right for the citizenry, within legal and ethical boundaries. We have long been clear in our stance that tech companies as good corporate citizens should comply with reasonable lawful access requests. I have stated before that we are indeed in a dark place when companies put their reputations above the greater good.

Source : Lawful Access, Corporate Citizenship and Doing What’s Right | Inside BlackBerry

31 mars 2016 / noflux

Le logiciel privateur surveille ses utilisateurs, décide de ce qu’il est possible de faire avec ou pas, contient des portes dérobées universelles qui permettent des changements à distance par le propriétaire, impose de la censure. Lorsqu’on l’utilise, on se place forcément sous l’emprise de la compagnie qui le vend. Avec ce pouvoir, le propriétaire est tenté d’imposer des fonctionnalités pour profiter des utilisateurs. On ne peut décider librement du code que l’on installe ou pas. On est donc forcément soumis et moins libre.

Source : Éradiquer Facebook pour sauver la démocratie | Le Devoir

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So … Now the Government Wants to Hack Cybercrime Victims | WIRED

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