JPMorgan Securities, UBS Financial Services, and TradeStation Securities have been fined by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – although to me the fines look like small change for these organisations! JPMorgan, UBS accused of shoddy identity theft protection • The Register
European Commission bans EU formal cooperation with UK on online data issues
When Boris Johnson’s UK government “got Brexit done”, a number of things were agreed upon as part of the Northern Ireland Protocol but British union leaders have been opposed to many of the planned checks of goods going from the rest of the UK into Northern Ireland. As a result …
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A challenge to facial recognition surveillance
There are a lot of issues around facial recognition (Kostka, Steinacker and Meckel. 2021). Law enforcement likes it, that makes sense, but then where do they get their footage to examine from? Should we have privacy when we walk down a street? What happens if the machine learning behind the …
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Read about your privacy…
Before we start: At Smart Thinking and Octagon Technology we think protecting children and vulnerable people from threat actors on the internet is extremely important – but the action taken need to be technically and securely effective and not impact the privacy of law abiding citizens. Now onto the post… …
Who decides who the good guys are? Don’t worry though NSO only sells it’s spyware to approved governments and law enforcement agencies
Here is another report from the well respected Citizen Lab about the use/misuse, sale/mis-sale of the spyware Pegasus by the Israeli NSO Group. GeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement – The Citizen Lab The sale of these types of cyber weapons on the open market, is enabling governments …
