Privacy
Surveillance provider marketed a product as being able to detect Uyghur minorities
Uyghurs have been called the world’s most surveilled minority.
iPhone bug shows Facebook app accessing camera while users browse Facebook
A video of the issue shows Facebook actively using the camera during and after users open photos and videos in the app.
Newly discovered Facebook privacy flaw could harm those escaping abusers
Facebook says it’s not a bug.
Doctors and nurses raise the alarm on Facebook’s WhatsApp being used to transmit patient medical information
Doctors and nurses routinely use the service to converse with other staff about patients.
California AG says Facebook is failing to comply with subpoenas over privacy scandals
The AG says Facebook is “dragging its feet”.
Two former Twitter employees charged with spying for the Saudi government and digging into accounts of critics
This is the first time the Justice Department has publicly accused Saudi Arabia of running agents in the US.
Facebook tests asking users to scan their face for verification
What could go wrong?
Facebook says around 100 developers could have inappropriately retained data on Facebook Group users
Facebook have come clean about another privacy concern.
Edward Snowden calls GDPR a “paper tiger”, says data collection is the real problem, not data protection
Snowden was speaking at a conference in Lisbon.
No one knows exactly why lasers can allow attackers to take over Google Home and other smart speakers
None of the vulnerabilities have yet been patched.
Apple and TikTok refuse to testify to US Congress about their business in China
Both companies are facing growing scrutiny over their ties to China.
Facebook warned the Indian government about WhatsApp spyware, but they didn’t pay attention
India said it was “pure technical jargon” about a technical vulnerability “and had nothing to do with the fact that the privacy of Indian users had been compromised,” the authorities said.