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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.