Clearview Facial-Recognition Technology Ruled Illegal in Canada

Canadian authorities have found that the collection of facial-recognition data by Clearview AI is illegal because it violates federal and provincial privacy laws, representing a win for individuals’ privacy and potentially setting a precedent for other legal challenges to the controversial...

Android Messenger App Still Leaking Photos, Videos

The GO SMS Pro Android app has published two new versions on Google Play since a major security weakness was disclosed in November – but neither fixes the original issue, leaving 100 million users at risk for privacy violations, researchers said. Meanwhile, a raft of exploitation tools have been...

Zoom Faces More Legal Challenges Over End-to-End Encryption

Video-conferencing behemoth Zoom has been hit with yet another lawsuit stemming from its claim to offer end-to-end encryption for sessions. The suit, filed in a Washington D.C. court PDF this week by a nonprofit advocacy group called Consumer Watchdog, alleges that the company falsely told users...

Facebook's FTC-Mandated Privacy Committee Now in Effect

Facebook on Thursday said it has started to report its privacy practices to a newly formed, independent Privacy Committee. The creation of the independent committee was part of the company’s settlement a year ago with the Federal Trade Commission FTC over data privacy violations, which came in...

New Research on the Adtech Industry

The Norwegian Consumer Council has published an extensive report about how the adtech industry violates consumer privacy. At the same time, it is filing three legal complaints against six companies in this space. From a Twitter summary: 1. thread We are filing legal complaints against six...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

Facebook Agrees to Pay $5 Billion Fine and Setup New Privacy Program for 20 Years

The Federal Trade Commission FTC today officially confirmed that Facebook has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Besides the multibillion-dollar penalty, the company has also accepted a 20-year-long agreement that...

Equifax to Pay $700 Million in 2017 Data Breach Settlement

Equifax will pay as much as $700 million to settle federal and state investigations on the heels of its infamous 2017 breach, which exposed the data of almost 150 million customers. The consumer credit reporting agency on Monday said it will dish out $300 million to cover free credit monitoring...

Privacy Experts: Facebook's $5B Fine Unlikely to Do Much

The $5 billion fine that the Federal Trade Commission has slapped on Facebook for privacy violations may be the largest ever levied by the agency, but it’s being derided as “chump change” and ineffective by lawmakers and privacy analysts. The settlement, reported Friday evening, stems from...

GHSA-83RX-C8CR-6J8Q Insecure Default Configuration in tesseract.js

Versions of tesseract.js prior to 1.0.19 default to using a third-party proxy. Requests may be proxied through crossorigin.me which clearly states is not suitable for production use. This may lead to instability and privacy violations. Recommendation Upgrade to version 1.0.19 or later...

New York, Canada, Ireland Launch New Investigations Into Facebook Privacy Breaches

Facebook has a lot of problems, then there are a lot of problems for Facebook—and both are not going to end anytime sooner. Though Facebook has already set aside $5 billion from its revenue to cover a possible fine the company is expecting as a result of an FTC investigation over privacy...

Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion Over Privacy Violations

Facebook expects to face a massive fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission FTC as the result of an investigation into its privacy policies—that's about one month's revenue for the social media giant. To be clear the amount of fine is not what the FTC has announced or hinted yet...

Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion Over Privacy Violations

Facebook expects to face a massive fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission FTC as the result of an investigation into its privacy policies—that's about one month's revenue for the social media giant. To be clear the amount of fine is not what the FTC has announced or hinted yet...

Cyber Security Week in Review (Feb. 22)

Welcome to this week's Cyber Security Week in Review, where Cisco Talos runs down all of the news we think you need to know in the security world. For more news delivered to your inbox every week, sign up for our Threat Source newsletter here. Top headlines this week U.S. officials charged a form...

Facebook Fined $11.3M for Privacy Violations

Facebook faces its second privacy-related fine in Europe, with the most recent action taken by the Italian Competition Authority. On Friday, Facebook was hit with two fines, totaling 10 million Euros about $11.3 million, for violating Italy’s Consumer Code. The Italian Competition Authority ICA...

Many Android VPN Apps Breaking Privacy Promises

An alarming number of Android VPNs are providing a decidedly false sense of security to users, especially those living in areas where communication is censored or technology is crucial to the privacy and physical security. A study published recently identified a number of shortcomings common to...

Sensitive URL encoded information written to Android logcat — Mozilla

Security researcher Muneaki Nishimura reported that Firefox for Android would write potentially sensitive data to the Android logcat that was encoded as part of logged URL strings. On Android 4.0 or earlier systems, logcat data is available to any application having READLOGS permission, leading t...

The vulnerability of the Gentoo Linux operating system allows a malicious intruder to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the yelp package up to version 2.22.1-r2 of the Gentoo Linux operating system can lead to violations of privacy, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely...

The vulnerability of the OpenSUSE operating system allows malicious actors to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the xorg-x11 package in the OpenSUSE operating system can lead to violations of privacy, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely...

The vulnerability of the CentOS operating system allows a malicious attacker to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the xorg-x11-Xdmx-6.8.2 package on the CentOS operating system can lead to violations of privacy, integrity, and accessibility of protected information. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely...