Cheap kids smartwatch exposes the location of 5,000+ children - ZDNet

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.

146 New Vulnerabilities All Come Preinstalled on Android Phones - WIRED

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.

2200 ansatte i Bergen kommune ble lurt av falsk e-post

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.

‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims - THE XINJIANG PAPERS - The New York Times

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.

Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change - CNN

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/veneto-council-climate-change-floods-trnd-intl-scli/index.html

Federal Court Rules Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional - American Civil Liberties Union

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searches-travelers-phones-and-laptops

GOVERNMENT MUST HAVE REASONABLE SUSPICION OF DIGITAL CONTRABAND BEFORE SEARCHING ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT THE U.S. BORDER

Uber’s Self-Driving Car Didn’t Know Pedestrians Could Jaywalk - WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/ubers-self-driving-car-didnt-know-pedestrians-could-jaywalk/

was not designed to detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk

All the international brands that have apologized to China - SupChina

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.

No one should buy the Facebook Portal TV - CNET

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

TikTok: U.S. views on censorship were often overridden by Chinese bosses - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/05/inside-tiktok-culture-clash-where-us-views-about-censorship-often-were-overridden-by-chinese-bosses/

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