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