Over-sharing and lack of oversight can cost a lot of money: Meta settles Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725m – BBC News The Cambridge Analytica Files | The Guardian
Google adds end-to-end encryption
The UK Government does not like the ordinary citizen to have uncontrolled access to end-to-end encryption (E2EE) but others like it – like Google: Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web (bleepingcomputer.com) See what I have to say about closing public toilets as an amendment to the UK …
Apple facing fines for privacy violations
The French data protection regulator wants to fine Apple €6 million for inconsistencies between the consent required between it own apps and third party apps. Explicit user consent was required for third party apps to track users but not for Apple apps and services. Apple deserves €6 million fine for …
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Twitter user data is from an old data breach but Uber’s is a new one!
The vast amount of Twitter user data that has recently been exposed online is from a data breach from 2021, not a new data breach according to Twitter. Twitter confirms recent user data leak is from 2021 breach (bleepingcomputer.com) None of these big tech companies ever give the impression in …
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Disinformation to help Pegasus
I have written a number of articles about the commercial spyware Pegasus. It has attracted the the interest of the European Parliament who are investigating the use of Pegasus around the world. Now MEPs are being warned about disinformation campaigns that are being pout out there to derail their investigation: …
