Elisa Braun / Politico:
Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France’s digital privacy defender — This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest.
Elisa Braun / Politico:
Docs detail cybersurveillance company Altrnativ, started by Eric Leandri, who co-founded search engine Qwant and was lauded as France’s digital privacy defender — This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest.
Politico:
German, French, and Norwegian data authorities warn against Qatar’s World Cup app Hayya and infection-tracking app Ehteraz, citing privacy and security concerns — Two World Cup apps pose serious privacy and security risks, European privacy regulators say.
Vincent Manancourt / Politico:
Ireland’s DPC fines Instagram €405M for violating children’s privacy under GDPR, the second highest fine under the law and the third for a Meta-owned company — The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta-owned social media platform Instagram €405 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation.
Samuel Stolton / Politico:
The UK’s CMA launches an investigation into Apple’s and Google’s dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming, following a survey that found a “stranglehold” — Apple and Google could be forced to loosen their grip on mobile systems after the United Kingdom’s competition watchdog launched …
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
Unsealed court docs in a privacy user profiling suit against Meta show that apps from Zynga, Yahoo, and others had extensive access to users’ friends’ data — It’s not the crime, it’s the cover up… The scandal-hit company formerly known as Facebook has fought for over four years to keep …
Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware:
Intel confirms their proprietary UEFI code appears to have been leaked by a third party; the Alder Lake BIOS source code was leaked to 4chan and GitHub — Hack’s perpetrator and origins remain unknown. — We recently broke the news that Intel’s Alder Lake BIOS source code had been leaked …
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