Amazon to Monitor Customer Service Workers’ Keyboard and Mouse Strokes
An internal document also mentions cases where imposters have stolen Amazon customer data.
Google Bans Location Data Firm Funded by Former Saudi Intelligence Head
SafeGraph sells smartphone location data to essentially anyone. Google banned the company in June.
Leaked Document Says Google Fired Dozens of Employees for Data Misuse
Some allegations potentially center around accessing Google user or employee data.
Grindr Has Been Warned for Years About Its Privacy Issues
For years, security and privacy researchers found serious vulnerabilities in Grindr, allowing them do deanonymize and geolocate users.
The Inevitable Weaponization of App Data Is Here
A Substack publication used location data from Grindr to out a priest without their consent.
Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure
The move comes as activist and media organizations publish new findings on the Israeli surveillance vendor.
Inside the Industry That Unmasks People at Scale
Unique IDs linked to phones are supposed to be anonymous. But there’s an entire industry that links them to real people and their address.
We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals
'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one.
The Hundreds of Little-Known Firms Getting Data on Americans
The data, which ends up in the hands of companies from China, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere, can include location and browsing information.
Amazon Acquires Encrypted Messaging App Wickr
Wickr is a popular encrypted messaging platform used by journalists, criminals, governments, and businesses.
Hackers Fool Facial Recognition Into Thinking I’m Mark Zuckerberg
Using a new technique, researchers say they can make AI systems misidentify people by adding small bits of data to the images.
A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers in India to Yell at Armed Robbers
Clerks at 7-Eleven and other convenience stores are being constantly monitored by a voice of god that can intervene from thousands of miles away.