https://ww.9to5google.com/2020/02/03/google-maps-hack-virtual-traffic-jam/
https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/01/apple-in-2019-the-six-colors-report-card/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/01/world/asia/china-coronavirus.html
At critical turning points, Chinese authorities put secrecy and order ahead of openly confronting the growing crisis and risking public alarm or political embarrassment.
A joint investigation conducted by Motherboard and PCMag, published this week, revealed that information scraped by Avast from users and handed over to Jumpshot is linked to individuals through a unique ID in an effort to anonymize them — but it is possible to pick apart data strings to de-anonymize users and reveal their identity, tracing their online footprint, browsing habits, and purchases.
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigation/2020/01/29/united-nations-cyber-attack
The UN did not publicly disclose a major hacking attack into its IT systems in Europe – a decision that potentially put staff, other organisations, and individuals at risk
The feds worry about Chinese-made drones sending data back to China.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
An antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world’s biggest companies, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag has found.
Avast
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/world/asia/coronavirus-crisis-china-response.html
While China can mobilize a huge national response to the outbreak, its response to the crisis is also a lesson in how the country’s political weak points can carry grave consequences for world health.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/world/middleeast/iran-plane-crash-coverup.html
For three days, Iranian military officials knew they had shot down a Ukrainian jetliner while the government issued false statements, denying any responsibility.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-epidemiologist-wuhan-public-health-warnings/
BlueDot uses an AI-driven algorithm that scours foreign-language news reports, animal and plant disease networks, and official proclamations
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/facial-recognition-ban-privacy.html
We need to have a serious conversation about all the technologies of identification, correlation and discrimination, and decide how much we as a society want to be spied on by governments and corporations — and what sorts of influence we want them to have over our lives.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/06/a-very-unlikely-chess-game/
Black is GPT-2
‘Grave concern’ expressed at evidence of possible ‘effort to silence Washington Post’
More than two years ago, Apple told the FBI that it planned to offer users end-to-end encryption when storing their phone data on iCloud
Under that plan, primarily designed to thwart hackers, Apple would no longer have a key to unlock the encrypted data, meaning it would not be able to turn material over to authorities in a readable form even under court order.
In private talks with Apple soon after, representatives of the FBI’s cyber crime agents and its operational technology division objected to the plan, arguing it would deny them the most effective means for gaining evidence against iPhone-using suspects, the government sources said.
When Apple spoke privately to the FBI about its work on phone security the following year, the end-to-end encryption plan had been dropped
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-chinese-students-data-exposed-on-internet-11579283410
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