Fisher Price Chatter Special Edition Rather than children using their imagination to make a call with these toys – an adult, with little care for security added Bluetooth for that real call experience on the playschool toy. Bluetooth reboot of pre-school play phone has privacy flaw • The Register
Your privacy improved – NHS Test and Trace
This is good news – following an audit the use of personal data, by NHS Test and Trace has been revised to improve the publics privacy. ICO and NHS Test and Trace agree data protection improvements following consensual audit | ICO Here is a summary report: Executive-summary-of-the-nhs-test-and-trace-audit-report.pdf (ico.org.uk)
Putting the brakes on Big Tech
The BBC has piece by in it’s Tech Tent podcast looking at the possible effectiveness of proposed UK laws to protect young people and stop disinformation. But will it work? Tech Tent – The UK’s plan to rein in big tech – BBC Sounds Here is The Guardian’s take on …
Meta takes steps to protect user privacy
Meta (Facebook) has taken steps to remove companies and organisations from it’s platforms it accuses of “… targeting individuals including journalists and human rights activists.” Meta bans surveillance-for-hire firms for targeting users – BBC News More on this here: Facebook takes down accounts for seven “cyber-mercenary” firms – The Record …
Your Privacy – get informed!
This is an excellent opinion piece by Ian Levy. Privacy Versus Security is a False Choice | WIRED UK Here is a quote from his article to get you started: “The pandemic has shown how central global social media, messaging and collaboration platforms have become in people’s everyday lives. However, …