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Driverless electric truck starts deliveries on Swedish public road - Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-einride-autonomous-sweden/driverless-electric-truck-starts-deliveries-on-swedish-public-road-idUSKCN1SL0NC

The T-Pod is level 4 autonomous […], and uses a Nvidia Drive platform to process visual data in real time. An operator, sitting miles away, can supervise and control up to 10 vehicles at once.

Google Gmail tracks purchase history — how to delete it

Google

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/google-gmail-tracks-purchase-history-how-to-delete-it.html

Google saves years of information on purchases you’ve made, even outside Google, and pulls this information from Gmail.

WhatsApp exploit let attackers install government-grade spyware on phones - TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/13/whatsapp-exploit-let-attackers-install-government-grade-spyware-on-phones/

The spyware in question that was detected as having been installed was Israel-based NSO Group’s Pegasus

WhatsApp voice calls used to inject Israeli spyware on phones - Financial Times

Facebook overvaking

https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab

attackers were able to install surveillance software on to both iPhones and Android phones by ringing up targets using the app’s phone call function. 

Software update crashes police ankle monitors in the Netherlands - ZDNet

overvaking

https://www.zdnet.com/article/software-update-crashes-police-ankle-monitors-in-the-netherlands/

the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security had to step in and preemptively arrest and jail some of its most high-risk suspects.

Millions of people uploaded photos to the Ever app. Then the company used them to develop facial recognition tools.

overvaking

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/millions-people-uploaded-photos-ever-app-then-company-used-them-n1003371

used to train the company’s facial recognition system, and that Ever then offers to sell that technology to private companies, law enforcement and the military.

Flaws in a popular GPS tracker leak real-time locations and can remotely activate its microphone - TechCrunch

hacking

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/10/gps-trackers-flaw/

This device is marketed at keeping the most vulnerable safe and yet anybody can locate and listen into thousands of people’s lives without their knowledge

Unpacking Google’s Apparent Turnaround on Privacy — Pixel Envy

Google personvern

https://pxlnv.com/linklog/google-privacy-turnaround/

Google’s argument is that they’re able to protect you from other companies’ privacy-rejecting technologies, but you can and should give them more of your private data.

Samsung spilled SmartThings app source code and secret keys - TechCrunch

datalekkasje

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/08/samsung-source-code-leak/

A development lab used by Samsung engineers was leaking highly sensitive source code, credentials and secret keys for several internal projects — including its SmartThings platform

Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/06/alexa-has-been-eavesdropping-you-this-whole-time/

I listened to four years of my Alexa archive and found thousands of fragments of my life […] There were even sensitive conversations that somehow triggered Alexa’s “wake word” to start recording

Kommune-Norge lekker informasjon om dine mest personlige nettbesøk – NRKBeta

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/05/02/disse-knappene-kan-avslore-om-du-soker-psykisk-helsehjelp/

At du besøker disse informasjonssidene deler Kristiansand kommune med det amerikanske IT-selskapet Oracle, noe de ikke opplyser om på sine personvernsider.

China: How Mass Surveillance Works in Xinjiang - Human Rights Watch

Kina overvaking

https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2019/05/02/china-how-mass-surveillance-works-xinjiang

Reverse Engineering’ Police App Reveals Profiling and Monitoring Strategies

Google adds option to auto-delete search and location history data - ZDNet

Google personvern

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-adds-option-to-auto-delete-location-history-data/

the company has been sued in the US, and is also facing GDPR investigations in seven EU countries for using deceptive UI controls that hide the fact the company is sometimes collecting location data.

Docker Hub hack exposed data of 190,000 users - ZDNet

datalekkasje hacking

https://www.zdnet.com/article/docker-hub-hack-exposed-data-of-190000-users/

Docker Hub usernames, hashed passwords, GitHub and Bitbucket access tokens exposed in the hack.

Security flaw lets attackers recover private keys from Qualcomm chips - ZDNet

hacking

https://www.zdnet.com/article/security-flaw-lets-attackers-recover-private-keys-from-qualcomm-chips/

knowing the sad state of Android OS updates, this will most likely leave many smartphones and tablets vulnerable for years to come.

Hacker could locate thousands of cars and kill their engines remotely via poorly-secured GPS tracking apps – HOTforSecurity

hacking

https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/hacker-could-locate-thousands-of-cars-and-kill-their-engines-remotely-via-poorly-secured-gps-tracking-apps-21108.html#new_tab

Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords unencrypted - Recode

Facebook datalekkasje

https://www.recode.net/2019/4/18/18485528/facebook-instagram-passwords-stored-unencrypted-security-issue

This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared.

Hackers Could Read Your Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook Emails by Abusing Microsoft Support - Motherboard

hacking

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywyz3x/hackers-could-read-your-hotmail-msn-outlook-microsoft-customer-support

One Month, 500,000 Face Scans: How China Is Using A.I. to Profile a Minority - NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/14/technology/china-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-racial-profiling.html

It is the first known example of a government intentionally using artificial intelligence for racial profiling, experts said.

potentially ushering in a new era of automated racism.

Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html

The tech giant records people’s locations worldwide. Now, investigators are using it to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, running the risk of snaring the innocent.