Schneier on Security

MARCH 12, 2019

Gamification and algorithmic management of work activities through continuous data collection. More advanced time-tracking can generate itemized records of on-the-job activities, which can be used to facilitate wage theft or allow employers to trim what counts as paid work time.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

It finally admitted to buying bulk data on Americans from data brokers, in response to a query by Senator Weyden. This is almost certainly illegal, although the NSA maintains that it is legal until it’s told otherwise. Some news articles.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Researchers found an updated LightSpy spyware with enhanced data collection features targeting social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. have found an updated version of the LightSpy spyware that supports an expanded set of data collection features to target social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2024

In an age where manufacturers have decided that just about every device needs to be “smart,” it’s becoming difficult to avoid the data collection and privacy invasion that are often baked into these devices. The post The Surveillance Invasion: IoT and Smart Devices Stealing Corporate Secrets appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 12, 2022

John Oliver has an excellent segment on data brokers and surveillance capitalism.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 23, 2021

A Catholic priest was outed through commercially available surveillance data.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The reason these threats are so real is that it's not difficult to hide surveillance or control infrastructure in computer components, and if they're not turned on, they're very difficult to find. Even so, these examples illustrate an important point: there's no escaping the technology of inevitable surveillance.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The conclusions seemed to upset the FTC, but we weren’t even mildly surprised: “The amount of data collected by large tech companies is simply staggering. Predicting, shaping, and monetizing human behavior through commercial surveillance is extremely profitable.” How they measure, promote, and research user engagement.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 21, 2022

News article : It’s not clear whether the security flaws were intentional or not, but the report speculated that proper encryption might interfere with some of China’s ubiquitous online surveillance tools, especially systems that allow local authorities to snoop on phones using public wireless networks or internet cafes.

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WIRED Threat Level

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Want to speak up against Big Tech, unjust data collection, and surveillance? Here's how to be an activist in your community and beyond.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

There’s a lot of talk about quantum computing, monitoring 5G networks, and the problems of big data: The math department, often in conjunction with the computer science department, helps tackle one of NSA’s most interesting problems: big data.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Australia’s Defense Department announced that they will remove surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms linked to the government of Beijing. Australia’s Defense Department is going to replace surveillance cameras made by Chinese firms Hikvision and Dahua, who are linked to the government of Beijing.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 12, 2023

No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years: Research and development : Google uses information to improve our services and to develop new products, features and technologies that benefit our users and the public.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

A class action lawsuit filed last week in the Northern District of California accused Oracle of running a “worldwide surveillance machine” and violating the fundamental privacy rights of hundreds of millions of people. To read this article in full, please click here

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2022

While many organizations have prioritized managing and securing this data, the topic of data privacy has also come into question particularly given the rise of connected devices and AI surveillance features. The post Understanding APIs Role in Data Privacy appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2025

Companies are showing customers different prices for the same goods and services based what data they have on them, including details like their precise location or browser history. The name for this method is surveillance pricing, and the FTC has just released initial findings of a report looking into that practice.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Where possible, favor openness and transparency over aggressive data collection or restrictions which erode civil liberties. Surveillance creep risks violating autonomy. Privacy Rights – Pervasive monitoring and data collection erode privacy rights and dignity. Focus only on proportional responses.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 14, 2020

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. What's more, U.S. Again, near-term self-interest has so far triumphed over society's long-term best interests.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 13, 2019

And if you read his 3,000-word post carefully, Zuckerberg says nothing about changing Facebook's surveillance capitalism business model. It even collects what it calls " shadow profiles " -- data about you even if you're not a Facebook user. Better use of Facebook data to prevent violence.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

This is due not only to AI advances, but to the business model of the internet—surveillance capitalism—which produces troves of data about all of us, available for purchase from data brokers.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 24, 2020

government to collect telephone data from millions of Americans. The newly-introduced bill targets the Patriot Act's Section 215, previously used by the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

Law enforcement, for instance, drew criticism for using a controversial facial recognition app — Clearview AI — to surveil citizens turning out to protest the George Floyd murder. However, as the data collected by Internet of Things systems gets deeper and richer , the algorithms running AI should get smarter and more accurate.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The code found in both apps allowed to gather device data, including model, MAC address, carrier information, and IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) number. The data collection code was found in the Baidu Push SDK, used to show real-time notifications inside both apps.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 1, 2020

The Register reports that the secret structures of GCHQ are part of the surveillance programme codenamed “CIRCUIT” and also refers to an Overseas Processing Centre 1 (OPC-1), while another centre, OPC-2, has been planned, according to documents leaked by Snowden. In the documents, the company is referred to as a “partner” codenamed Gerontic.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

German law enforcement agencies have been surveilling Tor network by operating their own servers for months. Research conducted by ARD’s Panorama and STRG_F revealed that data collected during surveillance is processed using statistical methods, effectively breaking Tor’s anonymity. ” reported the NDR.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While it may be easy to discount the data collection requests of an air fryer app , it is getting harder to buy any type of product today that doesn’t connect to the internet, request your data, or share that data with unknown companies and contractors across the world.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The automakers argued that their practice was necessary to provide certain features and services, such as hands-free calling and texting, and that customers had consented to the data collection by agreeing to the terms of service when they purchased their vehicles.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 20, 2025

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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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A privacy-forward web browser, like Mozilla, or Brave, might tell you that online privacy means being protected from third-party tracking and surreptitious data collection.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 23, 2023

The users got these feelings as they noticed an advertisement for a product or a service as soon as they searched or spoke about it with their friend or family member over the phone. Weirdly, two-thirds of them do not know how to stop it from happening.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 20, 2024

It reasons that when consumers buy a vehicle, they want a mode of transportation to get them from one point to another, but with GM (and its subsidiary OnStar) they unwittingly opt-in to an all-seeing surveillance system. The driving data collected and sold by GM included trip details like speed, seatbelt status, and driven distance.

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Schneier on Security

JULY 28, 2021

This is important : Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill was general secretary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), effectively the highest-ranking priest in the US who is not a bishop, before records of Grindr usage obtained from data brokers was correlated with his apartment, place of work, vacation home, family members’ addresses, and more. (..)

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

Americans currently have very few rights to opt out of the personal and financial surveillance, data collection and sale that is pervasive in today’s tech-based economy. The breach at National Public Data may not be the worst data breach ever.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2019

The extent of the flaw is wide, according to data collected by Krstic during the study, the vulnerabilities could impact up to 10 million people and 30,000 doors at 200 facilities. Some of the flaws, rated as ‘critical,’ could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to take full control of the vulnerable systems.

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Threatpost

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The EFF explains how data is being tracked and used on the web and mobile devices, how consumers can protect themselves - and why it's not all bad news.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2019

Israel surveillance firm NSO group can mine data from major social media. Poland and Lithuania fear that data collected via FaceApp could be misused. Former NSA contractor sentenced to 9 years for stealing classified data. The Problem With the Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Act.

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