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https://www.zdnet.com/article/cheap-kids-smartwatch-exposes-the-location-of-5000-children/
Insecure web backend and mobile app let attackers access any kids’ details and parent account.
https://www.wired.com/story/146-bugs-preinstalled-android-phones/
When you buy an Android smartphone, it’s rarely pure Android. Manufacturers squeeze in their own apps or give it a fresh coat of interface. Carriers do it too. The resulting stew of preinstalled software and vanilla Android sometimes turns out to be rancid, putting flaws and vulnerabilities on the phone before you even take it out of the box. For proof of how bad it is, look no further than the 146 vulnerabilities—across 29 Android smartphone makers—that have just been simultaneously revealed.
https://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/i/K3XOKE/2200-ansatte-i-bergen-kommune-ble-lurt-av-falsk-e-post
Hver sjette ansatte i Bergen kommune ga fra seg brukernavn og passord da de ble forsøkt lurt under en gransking av datasikkerheten i kommunen.
Bergen kommune har ikke god nok kontroll på personopplysningene de håndterer, og mange ansatte kjenner ikke til rutiner for personvern og hvordan de varsler om sikkerhetsbrudd.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/china-xinjiang-documents.html
one of the most significant leaks of government papers from inside China’s ruling Communist Party in decades. They provide an unprecedented inside view of the continuing clampdown in Xinjiang, in which the authorities have corralled as many as a million ethnic Uighurs, Kazakhs and others into internment camps and prisons over the past three years.
GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE REASONABLE SUSPICION OF DIGITAL CONTRABAND BEFORE SEARCHING ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT THE U.S. BORDER
https://www.wired.com/story/ubers-self-driving-car-didnt-know-pedestrians-could-jaywalk/
was not designed to detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk
https://signal.supchina.com/all-the-international-brands-that-have-apologized-to-china/
to maintain their market access in China in recent years. Plus, a record of the even more widespread phenomenon of self-censorship for the Chinese market.
https://www.cnet.com/news/no-one-should-buy-the-facebook-portal-tv/
solidly performing, decently priced device that just isn’t suited for anyone because of the privacy concerns and increasingly alarming issues plaguing the social networking site
former employees who worked in the company’s U.S. offices as recently as this spring said they were instructed to follow rules set by managers at ByteDance’s Beijing headquarters, such as demoting and removing content related to social and political topics, including those censored by the Chinese government
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/business/secret-consumer-score-access.html
the fact that obscure companies are accumulating information about years of our online and offline behavior is unsettling, and at a minimum it creates the potential for abuse or discrimination
After initial denial, company says report of “malware in system” is correct
TikTok reportedly censors materials deemed politically sensitive to the Chinese Communist party, including content related to the recent Hong Kong protests, as well as references to Tiananmen Square, Tibetan and Taiwanese independence, and the treatment of the Uighurs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/technology/china-hackers-ethnic-minorities.html
showing a new determination by Beijing to push its surveillance state beyond its borders.
Japanese hotel chain HIS Group has apologised for ignoring warnings that its in-room robots were hackable to allow pervs to remotely view video footage from the devices.