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Amazon ring used by police – archived source

LAPD Requested Ring Footage of Black Lives Matter Protests BY MATTHEW GUARIGLIA AND DAVE MAASS – FEBRUARY 16, 2021 Along with other civil liberties organizations and activists, EFF has long warned that Amazon Ring and other networked home surveillance devices could be used to monitor political activity and protests. Now we have documented proof that our fears were […]
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TikTok Is Watching You – Even If You Don’t Have an Account – archived source

TikTok Is Watching You – Even If You Don’t Have an Account I submitted a request under the GDPR, and was shocked to see what data the platform had been recording. By Riccardo Coluccini – January 21, 2021, 2:59pm This article originally appeared on VICE Italy. 2020 was TikTok’s year. Although the social media platform was already […]
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Google’s AMP is not made to improve speed, but ad revenue – archived source

The US antitrust complaint against Google shows that the claim ‘to improve speed with AMP’ was false from the start. It is simply a measure to increase ad revenue. 2021-01-08 / First published: 2019-03-27 AMP is an attempt by Google to colonize free platforms such as web and email. Google does not want to make […]
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Singapore Police uses TraceTogether data – archived source

Singapore Police Force can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations: Desmond Tan Matthew Mohan 04 Jan 2021 02:57PM(Updated: 04 Jan 2021 11:18PM) SINGAPORE: The Singapore Police Force (SPF) can obtain TraceTogether data for criminal investigations, said Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan in Parliament on Monday (Jan 4). The SPF is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code […]
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Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks – archived source

Elasticsearch and Kibana are now business risks January 14, 2021 In a play to convert users of their open source projects into paying customers, today Elastic announced that they are changing the license of both Elasticsearch and Kibana from the open source Apache v2 license to Server Side Public License (SSPL). If your organisation uses the open source versions […]
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Zyxel Undocumented user account – archived source

Undocumented user account in Zyxel products (CVE-2020-29583) TL;DR: If you have a Zyxel USG, ATP, VPN, ZyWALL or USG FLEX you should update to the latest firmware version today. You can find the full list of affected devices here and the Zyxel advisory here. Zyxel is a popular brand for firewalls that are marketed towards small and medium […]
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China forces censorship on Zoom – archived source

How Zoom violated its own terms of service for access to China’s market Like global tech companies before it, Zoom caved to the Chinese government, even when it meant overlooking basic human rights. Dec. 22, 2020, 8:18 PM CET / Updated Dec. 22, 2020, 8:42 PM CET By Yaqiu Wang, MSNBC Opinion Columnist On Dec. 18, prosecutors from the […]
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China infiltrated Zoom to force censorship – archived source

Zoom employee secretly censored users on behalf of China, alleges DOJ The plot allegedly involved falsely accusing users of distributing child sexual abuse material and terrorism to kick them off Zoom. By Jack Morse  on December 18, 2020 A senior Zoom employee falsely accused users of supporting terrorism and distributing child sexual abuse material in an effort to stop them […]
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China attempts to spy via internet cable contractors – archived source

Taiwan Says China Wants to Spy on Nations, Steal Data Through Undersea Cable Networks BY DAVID BRENNAN AND JOHN FENG ON 12/18/20 AT 5:30 AM EST Taiwan has claimed that China is backing private investment in Pacific undersea cable networks as a way to spy on foreign nations and steal data from its rivals, following a report this week […]
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Michelin tracks end users with RFID chips in tires – archived source
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