Google says it won’t track you directly in the future as it phases out cookies
Google clarified its plans for targeted advertising as it phases out the use of browser cookies from Chrome.
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Swiss authorities raid home of hacker potentially responsible for breaching surveillance cameras
Swiss law enforcement raided the home of a hacker potentially responsible for breaching around 150,000 surveillance cameras, exposing sensitive footage from homes, hospitals and prisons.
Facing Off Against Employee Monitoring Requirements
Many jurisdictions have adopted legal requirements that indirectly regulate network monitoring activities, since monitoring typically requires the collection and tracking of IP addresses, device IDs and other data that can be linked to a particular employee’s communication devices.
Greek police roll out new ‘smart’ devices with facial recognition
Greek authorities say the technology will make police checks more efficient, but critics are sounding the alarm about potential abuses.
Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of Facial Recognition
A hacked customer list shows that facial recognition company Verkada is deployed in tens of thousands of schools, bars, stores, jails, and other businesses around the country.
Internet providers tracking sites we visit in secretive trial
Campaigners complain of ‘staggering lack of transparency’ around mass data collection experiment.
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.
Privacy Debated in Fight Over Google Chrome Browser History Tracking
Attorneys for Google battled it out with a group of plaintiffs who say the company violated their privacy by storing their web browsing history even though they took a specific step they believed would shield them from being tracked.
Greece Moves Ahead with Biometric Border Management System
Greece is planning to implement a biometric border management system that will record all crossings at ports, airports and border check points.
A patent shows how surveillance drones could ID you from above
An Israeli biometrics startup with a history of defense contracts has applied for a patent on technology that repositions drones to get a better shot of a person on the ground.
Tracker pixels in emails are now an ‘endemic’ privacy concern
Invisible pixels used to track email activity are now an “endemic” issue that breaches our privacy, analysts suggest. Critics suggest the practice is marketing gone too far.