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.
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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
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.
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
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
The debate around encryption is too focused on one side of the security coin, in particular its potential use for criminal purposes in times of terrorism. The other side of the security coin, is that weakening encryption protections may bring even bigger dangers to national and international security
Source : Apple-FBI case could have serious global ramifications for human rights: Zeid
Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web.
Source : Project Shield | Jigsaw
Sheri Pym, the federal judge, has ordered Apple not to turn off its encryption but to make it easier for federal agents to randomly guess the suspects’ iPhone passcode. Apple has built a security feature into iPhones so that a phone slows down anyone trying to “brute force” his way into a phone by guessing passcode after passcode.
Source : Apple ordered to decrypt iPhone of San Bernardino shooter for FBI | US news | The Guardian