https://www.theverge.com/23648726/hp-officejet-printer-region-how-to-change-why
I moved across the ocean and took my printer with me. Then I discovered it was region-locked. A wiser man would have bought a new one.
Fast-growing e-commerce app Pinduoduo had an EvilParcel stow-away.
Android apps digitally signed by China’s third-biggest e-commerce company exploited a zero-day vulnerability that allowed them to surreptitiously take control of millions of end-user devices to steal personal data and install malicious apps, researchers from security firm Lookout have confirmed.
I løpet av noen uker skal Helse Sør-Øst ta i bruk en skytjeneste for å håndtere nordmenns pasientdata. Datatilsynet advarer om at USA ikke er ansett som et trygt land å sende slike opplysninger til, og ber dem sette på bremsen.
experienced attackers could easily create an exploit capable of remotely compromising vulnerable devices without triggering the targets’ attention.
https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal
the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) has decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR
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The DSBs decision to declare Google Analytics illegal, also applies to the “Facebook Login” and “Meta Pixel” tools provided by Meta: If these tools are used, data is inevitably transferred to the USA, where the data is at risk of intelligence surveillance. European website operators are therefore advised not to include any tools from Meta on their websites.
https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/
Obscure government algorithms are making life-changing decisions about millions of people around the world. Here, for the first time, we reveal how one of these systems works.
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Lighthouse Reports and WIRED obtained Rotterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm and the data used to train it, giving unprecedented insight into how such systems work. This level of access, negotiated under freedom-of-information laws, enabled us to examine the personal data fed into the algorithm, the inner workings of the data processing, and the scores it generates. By reconstructing the system and testing how it works, we found that it discriminates based on ethnicity and gender. It also revealed evidence of fundamental flaws that made the system both inaccurate and unfair.