Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
This is an interesting article, by Namrata Primlani a Doctoral Researcher at Northumbria University, Newcastle, looking at the technical and ethical issues of using facial recognition for tracking offenders: Facial recognition: UK plans to monitor migrant offenders are unethical – and they won’t work (theconversation.com) And the view from India: …
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The exceptions are telling. The UK’s new proposed censors at OFCOM are making it clear they’ll never enforce against corporate media concerns; it’s only small media creators, activists, citizen journalists, and everyday users who will be subject to the extra scrutiny and accompanying punishments. Joe Mullin – www.eff.org – AUGUST …
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Following yesterday’s story that threat actors have already compromised Android 13’s security setting, here is a good news story about how Android 13 with help protect your privacy: The Android 13 Privacy Settings You Should Update Now | WIRED UK
I am not sure how they would say no! If they “share” their trade secret algorithms, what else will they share? So be aware that if you interact with a Chinese organisation that information cannot be considered private anymore. Chinese internet giants hand algorithm data to government – BBC News
Facebook is testing E2EE for Messenger: Facebook testing end-to-end encryption as a default on Messenger – The Record by Recorded Future What is E2EE? End-to-end encryption – Wikipedia
“Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warnsCybersecurity expert Ron Deibert to testify to Canadian MPs about troubling spread of invasive surveillance tools” Leyland Cecco – The Guardian Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warns | Canada | The Guardian
Felix Krause, a privacy consultant and one time Google engineer has an article examining how Meta tracks users when they follow links from Meta websites using the iOS apps: iOS Privacy: Instagram and Facebook can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser · Felix Krause (krausefx.com) …
