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.
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.
European privacy regulators are scrutinizing how employers collect workers’ personal data and dishing out multimillion-dollar fines for violations.
The European Parliament is being investigated by the European Data Protection Supervisor after allegations that its COVID testing website didn’t meet EU privacy standards.
Telesforo Aviles admitted he took note of homes where attractive women lived and hacked into more than 200 accounts over several years.
A group of California WeChat users sued Tencent Holdings Ltd., the Chinese owner of the messaging and payment app, for allegedly violating their right to privacy by surveilling and censoring their communications.
Millions of users flocked to the chat apps in recent weeks. There are a few factors behind the surge.
A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) screens hundreds of millions of emails annually. The European Court of Human Rights is now looking into this practice.
The State Commissioner for Data Protection (LfD) Lower Saxony has imposed a fine of 10.4 million euros on notebooksbilliger.de AG.
The UK High Court has ruled that the security and intelligence services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single ‘general warrant’.
NEC developed the system in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
A government watchdog said the data was scooped up “in the course of the lawful collection of other data.”