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December 11, 2020 / Last updated : December 11, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

CNBC: Privacy concerns a challenge for Trump administration’s effort to track Covid vaccinations

CNBC: Privacy concerns a challenge for Trump administration’s effort to track Covid vaccinations. “The Trump administration’s plan to coordinate existing vaccine registries into a national database for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout is raising privacy concerns among some immunization officials who say the data should remain only with states.”

December 9, 2020 / Last updated : December 9, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Mashable: Activists demand Google open up about user data shared with police

Mashable: Activists demand Google open up about user data shared with police. “A coalition of 59 civil rights, labor, and civil society organizations sent an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai Tuesday, demanding the company be more transparent when it comes to how often it complies with law enforcement requests for user data. What’s […]

November 24, 2020 / Last updated : November 24, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Vice: Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups

Vice: Secret Amazon Reports Expose the Company’s Surveillance of Labor and Environmental Groups. “Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other social movements.”

November 19, 2020 / Last updated : November 19, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Vice: How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps

Vice: How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps. “The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps, Motherboard has learned. The most popular app among a group Motherboard analyzed connected to this sort of data sale is a Muslim prayer and Quran app […]

September 17, 2020 / Last updated : September 17, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

ZDNet: Google ‘formally’ bans stalkerware apps from the Play Store

ZDNet: Google ‘formally’ bans stalkerware apps from the Play Store. “Google has updated its Play Store rules to impose a ‘formal’ ban on stalkerware apps, but the company has left a pretty huge loophole in place for stalkerware to be uploaded on the official store as child-tracking applications.”

September 8, 2020 / Last updated : September 8, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Citizen Digital: Bloggers, social media users with huge following to be ‘monitored by the state’- Ugandan gov’t orders

Citizen Digital: Bloggers, social media users with huge following to be ‘monitored by the state’- Ugandan gov’t orders . “The Ugandan Communication Commission has asked social media users and bloggers with a large following to ‘register for monitoring by the state’. Those who fit the bill are required to have registered with the commission before […]

September 7, 2020 / Last updated : September 7, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

New York Times: Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping.

New York Times: Forget TikTok. China’s Powerhouse App Is WeChat, and Its Power Is Sweeping.. “For most Chinese people in China, WeChat is a sort of all-in-one app: a way to swap stories, talk to old classmates, pay bills, coordinate with co-workers, post envy-inducing vacation photos, buy stuff and get news. For the millions of […]

September 6, 2020 / Last updated : September 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Reuters: Philippine police draw flak for plan to monitor social media on quarantine

Reuters: Philippine police draw flak for plan to monitor social media on quarantine. “Philippine police drew criticism from netizens and activists on Sunday for a plan to monitor social media to enforce quarantine rules, with critics accusing the authorities of authoritarianism and double standards.”

September 2, 2020 / Last updated : September 2, 2020 ResearchBuzz Around the Search & Social Media World

Motherboard: Amazon Is Spying on Its Workers in Closed Facebook Groups, Internal Reports Show

Motherboard: Amazon Is Spying on Its Workers in Closed Facebook Groups, Internal Reports Show. “Amazon is monitoring the conversations of Amazon Flex drivers in dozens of private Facebook groups in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, according to an internal web tool and reports left on the open internet and viewed by Motherboard. […]

August 28, 2020 / Last updated : August 28, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Motherboard: CBP Now Has a Massive Searchable Database for Devices Seized at the Border

Motherboard: CBP Now Has a Massive Searchable Database for Devices Seized at the Border. “Every year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents seize tens of thousands of cell phones, laptops, and other devices from travelers at or near the country’s borders, often without charging them with a specific crime. Those seizures give the agency […]

August 25, 2020 / Last updated : August 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

CNET: Secret Service reportedly paid to access phone location data

CNET: Secret Service reportedly paid to access phone location data. “The Secret Service reportedly paid for a product called Locate X, which allows the agency to access location data from apps on people’s phones. The agency was thus able to bypass measures like obtaining a warrant or court order to get that kind of information, […]

August 17, 2020 / Last updated : August 17, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Stockholm Center for Freedom: Turkey investigated 14,186 social media accounts, taking legal action against 6,743 of them in first 7 months

Stockholm Center for Freedom: Turkey investigated 14,186 social media accounts, taking legal action against 6,743 of them in first 7 months. “Turkish police investigated 14,186 social media accounts in the first seven months of 2020, taking legal action against 6,743 of them on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda, inciting the public to hatred and enmity, […]

August 8, 2020 / Last updated : August 8, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

Mashable: Google smart speakers secretly updated to listen for more than wake words

Mashable: Google smart speakers secretly updated to listen for more than wake words. “The company admitted Monday, following a report by Protocol, that it had updated an unspecified number of Google Assistant-enabled devices to respond to auditory cues beyond the user-specified wake phrase. Google told Protocol this was a mistake that was quickly fixed, but […]

August 6, 2020 / Last updated : August 6, 2020 ResearchBuzz COVID-19

Chicago Will Check Social Media to Help Enforce Travel Order: CDPH Commissioner (NBC Chicago)

NBC Chicago: Chicago Will Check Social Media to Help Enforce Travel Order: CDPH Commissioner. “Chicago health officials could check your social media if they believe you may have violated the city’s travel order. The city’s top public health official said Tuesday that social media could be used as evidence to help enforce a quarantine requirement […]

July 25, 2020 / Last updated : July 25, 2020 ResearchBuzz Security & Legal Issues

ZDNet: Fawkes protects your identity from facial recognition systems, pixel by pixel

ZDNet: Fawkes protects your identity from facial recognition systems, pixel by pixel. “In a paper (.PDF) due to be presented at the USENIX Security 2020 symposium, researchers Shawn Shan, Emily Wenger, Jiayun Zhang, Huiying Li, Haitao Zheng, and Ben Zhao introduce ‘Fawkes,’ software designed to ‘help individuals inoculate their images against unauthorized facial recognition models.’ […]

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