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Privacy Roundup: Week 3 of Year 2025

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Specifically, stories and news items where public and/or private organizations have leveraged their capabilities to encroach on user privacy; for example, data brokers using underhanded means to harvest user location data without user knowledge or public organizations using technology without regard for user privacy.

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China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure

Schneier on Security

China is mandating that athletes download and use a health and travel app when they attend the Winter Olympics next month. Citizen Lab examined the app and found it riddled with security holes.

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5G Security

Schneier on Security

These insecurities are a result of market forces that prioritize costs over security and of governments, including the United States, that want to preserve the option of surveillance in 5G networks. If your smartphone is vulnerable to a downloaded exploit, it doesn't matter how secure the networking protocols are. What's more, U.S.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 12 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. These apps also frequently use Bluetooth data to gather location information and proximity to nearby devices. Once executed, the script fetches the information stealing malware.

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Judging Facebook's Privacy Shift

Schneier on Security

And if you read his 3,000-word post carefully, Zuckerberg says nothing about changing Facebook's surveillance capitalism business model. Increased transparency over advertiser and app accesses to user data. Today, Facebook users can download and view much of the data the company has about them.

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Baidu Android apps removed from Play Store because caught collecting user details

Security Affairs

The two apps were discovered by Palo Alto Networks, which identify them, along with other apps leaking data, using a machine learning (ML)-based spyware detection system. The two apps had a total of more than 6 million downloads at the time of their discovery.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 11 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

Surveillance Tech in the News This section covers surveillance technology and methods in the news. Of course, personalized in this context means leveraging extensive amounts of data collected on people.