Elon Musk Says Tesla Won’t Share Data From Its Cars With China or U.S.
Tesla would never provide the U.S. government with data collected by its vehicles in China or other countries, said CEO Elon Musk.
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Flaws in Apple Location Tracking System Could Lead to User Identification
An adversary could perform a location correlation attack and access location history, thus de-anonymizing users.
France seeks to bypass EU top court on data retention
Paris invoked a rarely used argument to ask the country’s highest administrative court not to follow the Luxembourg ruling.
CJEU rules electronic communication location data must only be used in investigations of ’serious crime’
Location data drawn from electronic communications must only be used by law enforcement investigations involving ‘serious crimes’ and to prevent ‘serious threats to public security’, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) has ruled.
Google admits failing to wipe all Android apps with location-selling X-Mode SDK from its Play Store
Due to an oversight during our enforcement process, 25 apps containing the X-Mode SDK were not removed from Google Play after the developers were given a 7-day warning.
Minneapolis police tapped Google to identify George Floyd protesters
Civil liberties groups have criticized the use of these dragnet search warrants.
Facebook Gives FBI Private Messages Of Users Discussing Capitol Hill Riot
DOJ files charges against alleged rioter after the FBI raided his Facebook account, including private messages and an IP address that plotted his approximate locations.
Military Intelligence Agency Says It Monitored U.S. Cellphone Movements Without Warrant
The U.S. government is using app-generated marketing data based on the movements of millions of cellphones around the country for some forms of law enforcement.
Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
Sensitive Data Leak From Baidu Apps Allows Lifetime User Tracking According To Researchers
About 1.4 billion people worldwide were affected by the data leak from Baidu and other apps.
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.
Law enforcement is using location tracking on mobile devices to identify suspects, but is it unconstitutional?
As the use of geofence warrants has grown, so have controversies surrounding them. Defense attorneys argue they’re unconstitutional, and prosecutors […]