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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-12/your-smart-light-can-tell-amazon-and-google-when-you-go-to-bed

The tech giants are demanding a continuous stream of customer information from smart-home manufacturers, prompting privacy concerns. 

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/countries-zero-rating-have-more-expensive-wireless-broadband-countries-without-it

When an ISP decides to exempt certain applications or services from cutting into a user’s data cap, that’s zero rating.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xyq8v/how-to-unlock-icloud-stolen-iphone

In a novel melding of physical and cybercrime, hackers, thieves, and even independent repair companies are finding ways to “unlock iCloud” from iPhones.

https://www.bt.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/J1mGO7/Norske-Visma-utsatt-for-datainnbrudd-fra-Kina

[en del av] et stort dataangrep fra Kinas sikkerhetsdepartement i desember, med mål om å stjele forretningshemmeligheter.

fikk tilgang til krypterte brukernavn og passord til de interne systemene, men ikke kundesystemet.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/pst-advarer_-_-vaer-oppmerksom-pa-huawei-1.14414252

PST peker på Kina og Russland som cybertrusler, og ber myndighetene holde et øye med den kinesiske telegiganten Huawei.

https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/

encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer.

https://www.nrk.no/norge/smartklokken-reddet-toralv-lordag-natt-1.14412266

Natt til lørdag falt Toralv Østvang (67) hardt i badegulvet alene på Hamar. En knapp halvtime senere fant politiet ham blodig og bevisstløs. De hadde fått beskjed av smartklokken rundt håndleddet hans.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-spying-raven-specialreport/special-report-inside-the-uaes-secret-hacking-team-of-u-s-mercenaries-idUSKCN1PO19O

how former U.S. government hackers have employed state-of-the-art cyber-espionage tools on behalf of a foreign intelligence service that spies on human rights activists, journalists and political rivals.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/

It looks like Facebook was not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo app that Apple banned in June

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transparency-tools

A number of organizations […] have developed tools to let the public see exactly how Facebook users are being targeted by advertisers.

Now, Facebook has quietly made changes to its site that stop those efforts.

https://nrkbeta.no/2019/01/30/facebook-har-i-en-arrekke-betalt-tenaringer-for-a-fa-spionere-pa-dem/

Appen installerte et såkalt rotsertifikat

Dette betyr blant annet at Facebook har kunne se hvilke nettsider tenåringene surfet på og hva de skrev i private chatmeldinger.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18203551/apple-facebook-blocked-internal-ios-apps

The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-28/u-s-planning-to-announce-criminal-charges-related-to-huawei-jrgrda0q

Employees offered bonuses to steal rival tech, prosecutors say

CFO allegedly lied to banks about Huawei’s business in Iran

https://www.lawfareblog.com/evaluating-gchq-exceptional-access-proposal

On the other side of this debate is pretty much all technologists working in computer security and cryptography, who argue that adding eavesdropping features fundamentally makes those systems less secure.

https://www.nrk.no/urix/huawei-_-fare-for-spionasje-eller-svertekampanje_-1.14399304

Grunnleggeren av Huawei, kom nylig på banen og hevdet at selskapet aldri vil utlevere informasjon til kinesiske myndigheter.

Det kan han trolig ikke love. Den kinesiske sikkerhetsloven står nemlig i veien for det.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-believes-it-doesnt-need-to-show-proof-huawei-is-a-spy-threat-11548288297

Huawei’s very structure, with its close ties to the Chinese government […] makes the company a potential tool for espionage and thus a security threat

https://digiday.com/media/google-fined-57m-french-regulator-breaching-gdpr/

for making it difficult for users to see the detail on why and how they should give consent in order to be sent personalized ads, and for providing a pre-ticked option when requesting consent.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-140-international-airlines-affected-by-major-security-breach/

Potential attackers could view and change private information in flight bookings made by millions of customers of major international airlines because of a security issue in the Amadeus online booking system […]

https://www.nrk.no/finnmark/kommune-nekter-laerere_-elever-og-foreldre-a-kommunisere-pa-facebook-1.14395331

Den nye personvernloven som kom i fjor, har ført til at Alta kommune nå nekter ansatte i skoler og barnehager å bruke Facebook for å kommunisere med elever og foreldre.