US Congress passes new IoT cybersecurity law
Congress recently made significant progress toward greater IoT security in the United States when it enacted the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020.
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Huawei worked on several surveillance systems promoted to identify ethnicity
Huawei has worked with dozens of security contractors to develop surveillance products for China’s police.
Google And IAB In The Crosshairs Over RTB (Again)
Google and the IAB are once again under the EU’s gimlet eye.
Varanasi Is Using Crime Control as an Excuse for Facial Recognition Surveillance
Varanasi in India is installing 3,000 CCTV cameras with automated facial recognition tech at the city’s crossings.
Google and Apple are banning technology for sharing users’ location data
Google and Apple are trying to put a stop to X-Mode Social’s code that may be in some of the apps on your phone, tracking and selling your location data.
France fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for dropping tracking cookies without consent
Google has been hit with a total of €100 million ($120 million) for dropping cookies on Google.fr and Amazon €35 million (~$42 million) for doing so on the Amazon .fr domain under the penalty notices issued on December 10.
Facebook lawsuits: the biggest tech battle yet, and one that is long overdue
The biggest antitrust case in a generation has been compared to the years-long lawsuit against Microsoft in 1998
EU, UK mulling interim data flows solution post-Brexit
The officials said that any interim solution is tied up in the wider trade negotiations, which both sides agree are currently stuck.
Chinese embassy blames hackers for retweet of Trump’s claim that Democrats cheated in election
The Chinese embassy in the U.S. said its Twitter account was hacked after it retweeted a baseless claim from President Donald Trump that the Democrats cheated in the election.
Amazon’s new health band is the most invasive tech ever tested by Washington Post
In an anonymized way, it can data mine the heart rate, activity, sleep and tone patterns of Halo owners, using the information to tailor its health algorithms and learn about human bodies.
Apple takes aim at adtech hysteria over iOS app tracking change
Apple has used a speech to European lawmakers and privacy regulators today to come out jabbing at what SVP Craig Federighi described as dramatic.
Premiere security firm FireEye says it was breached by nation-state hackers
FireEye, a $3.5 billion top cybersecurity company has been hacked by a well-endowed nation-state.