Bjarteblogg Ymse
https://nrkbeta.no/2020/06/05/utviklerne-av-smittestopp-tester-na-teknologi-fra-apple-og-google/
Norske Simula tester Apple og Googles teknologi for kontaktsporing, men det er ikke klart om dagens app Smittestopp vil bli endret eller erstattet.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/05/qatar-covid19-contact-tracing-app-security-flaw/
If technology is to play an effective role in tackling the virus, people need to have confidence that contact tracing apps will protect their privacy and other human rights
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52758787
A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents’ permission
The Competition Bureau said it found that Facebook’s privacy claims were not consistent with the way it shared personal data of users with some third-party developers.
Foreldre fekk tilgang til opplysningar om barn på hemmeleg adresse. No vil Datatilsynet gi Bergen den største data-bota til ein kommune nokon gong.
https://nrkbeta.no/2020/05/09/guide-slik-begrenser-du-sporing-av-din-mobil/
hvordan du deler færre posisjonsdata – på Android og iPhone.
When he looked around the Web on the device’s default Xiaomi browser, it recorded all the websites he visited, including search engine queries whether with Google or the privacy-focused DuckDuckGo, and every item viewed on a news feed feature of the Xiaomi software. That tracking appeared to be happening even if he used the supposedly private “incognito” mode.
https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/20/academics-contact-tracing/
“It is vital that, in coming out of the current crisis, we do not create a tool that enables large scale data collection on the population, either now or at a later time,”
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/04/security_and_pr_1.html
you should either lock Zoom down as best you can, or — better yet — abandon the platform altogether.
https://www.cyberscoop.com/facbook-facial-recognition-lawsuit-illinois/
Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” service
The case accuses Facebook of breaking privacy law in Illinois by mining information about people in the state without their consent, then failing to disclose how long that data would be stored
etter en IT-feil hos Idrettsforbundet. Datatilsynet prioriterer saken høyt.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21122044/google-photos-privacy-breach-takeout-data-video-strangers
Google’s Takeout service, that lets people download their data, was affected by a “technical issue” between November 21st and November 25th last year. It resulted in a small number of users receiving private videos that didn’t belong to them.
A joint investigation conducted by Motherboard and PCMag, published this week, revealed that information scraped by Avast from users and handed over to Jumpshot is linked to individuals through a unique ID in an effort to anonymize them — but it is possible to pick apart data strings to de-anonymize users and reveal their identity, tracing their online footprint, browsing habits, and purchases.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
An antivirus program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world’s biggest companies, a joint investigation by Motherboard and PCMag has found.
Avast
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/opinion/facial-recognition-ban-privacy.html
We need to have a serious conversation about all the technologies of identification, correlation and discrimination, and decide how much we as a society want to be spied on by governments and corporations — and what sorts of influence we want them to have over our lives.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3mdvk/ring-fired-employees-abusing-video-data
The news highlights a risk across many different tech companies: employees may abuse access granted as part of their jobs to look at customer data or information. In Ring’s case this data can be particularly sensitive though, as customers often put the cameras inside their home.
fails to adequately protect children’s privacy by illegally keeping data on children even after their parents try to delete it
Canada’s biggest provider of specialty laboratory testing services said it paid hackers an undisclosed amount for the return of personal data they stole belonging to as many as 15 million customers.
As past identities become stickier for those entering adulthood, it’s not just individuals who will suffer. Society will too.
The risk is that this will produce generations of increasingly cautious individuals—people too worried about what others might find or think to ever engage in productive risks or innovative thinking.
The second potential danger is more troubling: in a world where the past haunts the present, young people may calcify their identities, perspectives, and political positions at an increasingly young age.