US lawmakers are investigating a company that sells people's phone location data to the FBI
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has opened an investigation into a data firm that sells people's smartphone location data to government agencies.
The company, Venntel, is facing scrutiny for the Democratic-led committee for its business of buying location data from various smartphone apps and selling that data to agencies including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. DHS used location data from Venntel to track down people who crossed the border into the US illegally, the Wall Street Journal reported in February.
More recently, the FBI updated its contract with Venntel in May, The Intercept reported Wednesday, although the terms of that contract have not been made public.
https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-investigate-company-selling-phone-location-data-to-the-fbi-2020-6
#fbi #dhs #privacy
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has opened an investigation into a data firm that sells people's smartphone location data to government agencies.
The company, Venntel, is facing scrutiny for the Democratic-led committee for its business of buying location data from various smartphone apps and selling that data to agencies including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. DHS used location data from Venntel to track down people who crossed the border into the US illegally, the Wall Street Journal reported in February.
More recently, the FBI updated its contract with Venntel in May, The Intercept reported Wednesday, although the terms of that contract have not been made public.
https://www.businessinsider.com/lawmakers-investigate-company-selling-phone-location-data-to-the-fbi-2020-6
#fbi #dhs #privacy
Death of cash to accelerate as digital payments surge after pandemic
The use of digital cards and services such as Apple Pay and Android pay is set to increase significantly after lockdown
Contactless and digital-only payment methods such as Apple Pay and Android Pay will surge after the Covid-19 pandemic passes, a new report has found.
Britain is best placed to remain as a global hub for fintech investment despite Brexit and the recent lockdown, according to a new report by the Emerging Payments Association, which was commissioned by Luxembourg for Finance (LFF), a state-backed development agency.
The lengthy analysis of Europe’s payment methods tipped digital wallets to lead the change, replacing the more commonly used credit and debit cards.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/06/29/digital-payments-will-surge-pandemic/
#cashless #payment
The use of digital cards and services such as Apple Pay and Android pay is set to increase significantly after lockdown
Contactless and digital-only payment methods such as Apple Pay and Android Pay will surge after the Covid-19 pandemic passes, a new report has found.
Britain is best placed to remain as a global hub for fintech investment despite Brexit and the recent lockdown, according to a new report by the Emerging Payments Association, which was commissioned by Luxembourg for Finance (LFF), a state-backed development agency.
The lengthy analysis of Europe’s payment methods tipped digital wallets to lead the change, replacing the more commonly used credit and debit cards.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/06/29/digital-payments-will-surge-pandemic/
#cashless #payment
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Facebook boycott: View the list of companies pulling ads
A growing list of companies say they'll join an advertiser boycott on Facebook in protest of what they say are the site's failures to stop the spread of hate.
In a statement to CNN on Friday, Carolyn Everson, vice president of Facebook's global business group, responded by saying, "We deeply respect any brand's decision and remain focused on the important work of removing hate speech and providing critical voting information. Our conversations with marketers and civil rights organizations are about how, together, we can be a force for good."
👉🏼 Here's what we know about the companies that have joined the boycott:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/28/business/facebook-ad-boycott-list/index.html
#DeleteFacebook #StopHateForProfit
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
A growing list of companies say they'll join an advertiser boycott on Facebook in protest of what they say are the site's failures to stop the spread of hate.
In a statement to CNN on Friday, Carolyn Everson, vice president of Facebook's global business group, responded by saying, "We deeply respect any brand's decision and remain focused on the important work of removing hate speech and providing critical voting information. Our conversations with marketers and civil rights organizations are about how, together, we can be a force for good."
👉🏼 Here's what we know about the companies that have joined the boycott:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/28/business/facebook-ad-boycott-list/index.html
#DeleteFacebook #StopHateForProfit
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📡@NoGoolag
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Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh
As tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China continues, the Government of India has decided to ban on 59 Chinese apps, including Tik Tok.
The government of India has decided to ban 59 apps of Chinese origin as border tensions simmer in Ladakh after a violent, fatal face-off between the Indian and Chinese armies. The list of apps banned by the government includes TikTok, which is extremely popular.
The government announced the ban on the 59 Chinese apps (full list below) Monday night. The government said these apps were engaged in activities that were prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and defence of India.
A government press release announcing the ban stated: "The Ministry of Information Technology, invoking it’s power under section 69A of the Information Technology Act read with the relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009 and in view of the emergent nature of threats has decided to block 59 apps since in view of information available they are engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order".
The press release further said that the Ministry of Information Technology has received "many representations raising concerns from citizens regarding security of data and risk to privacy relating to operation of certain apps".
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/centre-announces-ban-chinese-apps-privacy-issues-1695265-2020-06-29
#china #india #apps #privacy #TikTok #DeleteTikTok
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📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
As tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China continues, the Government of India has decided to ban on 59 Chinese apps, including Tik Tok.
The government of India has decided to ban 59 apps of Chinese origin as border tensions simmer in Ladakh after a violent, fatal face-off between the Indian and Chinese armies. The list of apps banned by the government includes TikTok, which is extremely popular.
The government announced the ban on the 59 Chinese apps (full list below) Monday night. The government said these apps were engaged in activities that were prejudicial to the sovereignty, integrity and defence of India.
A government press release announcing the ban stated: "The Ministry of Information Technology, invoking it’s power under section 69A of the Information Technology Act read with the relevant provisions of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009 and in view of the emergent nature of threats has decided to block 59 apps since in view of information available they are engaged in activities which is prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order".
The press release further said that the Ministry of Information Technology has received "many representations raising concerns from citizens regarding security of data and risk to privacy relating to operation of certain apps".
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/centre-announces-ban-chinese-apps-privacy-issues-1695265-2020-06-29
#china #india #apps #privacy #TikTok #DeleteTikTok
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
India Today
TikTok, Shareit, UC Browser among 59 Chinese apps banned by India as border tensions simmer in Ladakh
As tensions along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China continues, the Government of India has decided to ban on 59 Chinese apps, including Tik Tok.
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‼️ Boycott Facebook ‼️
#DeleteFacebook #StopHateForProfit #mydata #ourdata #thinkabout
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#DeleteFacebook #StopHateForProfit #mydata #ourdata #thinkabout
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🗞 Warden is an open source app from the developer of Aurora Store that lets you disable trackers/loggers [Root]
It’s no secret that we’re constantly tracked while on the Internet. While marketers and organizations contend that tracking users help them understand their behavior and preferences so they can improve their services, many users find this degree of tracking to be invasive. Many users may even end up divulging more information about their browsing habits
https://www.xda-developers.com/warden-open-source-app-aurora-store-disable-trackers-loggers
#appwarden #warden
It’s no secret that we’re constantly tracked while on the Internet. While marketers and organizations contend that tracking users help them understand their behavior and preferences so they can improve their services, many users find this degree of tracking to be invasive. Many users may even end up divulging more information about their browsing habits
https://www.xda-developers.com/warden-open-source-app-aurora-store-disable-trackers-loggers
#appwarden #warden
XDA
Warden is an open source app from the developer of Aurora Store that lets you disable trackers/loggers [Root]
Warden is an open source app that lets you identify apps with trackers and loggers and also disabling or uninstalling them.
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ISP Ordered to Hand Over Pirates’ Details After Cracked Software ‘Phoned Home’
Alleged pirates who installed cracked copies of expensive Siemens CAD tools on their computers are facing potentially huge settlement demands after the software "phoned home" informing the company of the illicit use. The Australian Federal Court has ordered ISP Telstra to hand over the personal details of the suspected infringers.
Reports of movie companies tracking down alleged pirates in order to extract cash settlements are commonplace today.
After IP addresses are monitored in BitTorrent swarms, companies regularly obtain court orders requiring ISPs to hand over the personal details of alleged infringers, to whom they send correspondence threatening a lawsuit, unless they pay up of course.
On first view, a case in Australia seems to follow a similar pattern but the details reveal a more interesting set of circumstances.
In an application filed at the Federal Court in Australia, Siemens Industry Software Inc asked the Court to compel local ISP Telstra to reveal the identities and personal details of “20 potential infringing users” who used “cracked” versions of its software.
However, instead of tracking these alleged pirates in BitTorrent swarms, Siemens obtained evidence of their infringement directly from their computers.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://torrentfreak.com/isp-ordered-to-hand-over-pirates-details-after-cracked-software-phoned-home-200629/
#isp #australia #pirates #software #cracked
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📡@NoGoolag
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Alleged pirates who installed cracked copies of expensive Siemens CAD tools on their computers are facing potentially huge settlement demands after the software "phoned home" informing the company of the illicit use. The Australian Federal Court has ordered ISP Telstra to hand over the personal details of the suspected infringers.
Reports of movie companies tracking down alleged pirates in order to extract cash settlements are commonplace today.
After IP addresses are monitored in BitTorrent swarms, companies regularly obtain court orders requiring ISPs to hand over the personal details of alleged infringers, to whom they send correspondence threatening a lawsuit, unless they pay up of course.
On first view, a case in Australia seems to follow a similar pattern but the details reveal a more interesting set of circumstances.
In an application filed at the Federal Court in Australia, Siemens Industry Software Inc asked the Court to compel local ISP Telstra to reveal the identities and personal details of “20 potential infringing users” who used “cracked” versions of its software.
However, instead of tracking these alleged pirates in BitTorrent swarms, Siemens obtained evidence of their infringement directly from their computers.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://torrentfreak.com/isp-ordered-to-hand-over-pirates-details-after-cracked-software-phoned-home-200629/
#isp #australia #pirates #software #cracked
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
Torrentfreak
ISP Ordered to Hand Over Pirates' Details After Cracked Software 'Phoned Home' * TorrentFreak
Siemens has obtained a court order to identify alleged software pirates. The tools had an embedded "phone home" feature that blew the whistle
How to protect your privacy at protest.
📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious
📖 EFF guide on attending protest: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest
📱Recommended Apps:
Signal || Briar || Silence
OsmAnd Maps || ObscuraCam
ScrambledEXIF || Image Scrubber (Website)
📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#protest #Privacy #Surveillance
Learn how to protect your privacy in a street surveillance situation during protests.📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious
📖 EFF guide on attending protest: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/attending-protest
📱Recommended Apps:
Signal || Briar || Silence
OsmAnd Maps || ObscuraCam
ScrambledEXIF || Image Scrubber (Website)
📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#protest #Privacy #Surveillance
Privacy Isn’t a Right You Can Click Away
Senator Sherrod Brown wants to drastically scale back the permitted uses of your personal data—and ban facial recognition outright.
Be honest—have you ever read a privacy disclosure? Even once?
Facebook’s data privacy policy is more than 4,000 words. It contains dozens of links to hundreds of pages of complex terms and agreements. Even if you had the time to read it, you’d need a law degree and a data science background to understand which rights you’re signing away and what frightening experiments Facebook is cooking up with your private life as raw material.
https://www.wired.com/story/privacy-isnt-a-right-you-can-click-away/
#privacy
Senator Sherrod Brown wants to drastically scale back the permitted uses of your personal data—and ban facial recognition outright.
Be honest—have you ever read a privacy disclosure? Even once?
Facebook’s data privacy policy is more than 4,000 words. It contains dozens of links to hundreds of pages of complex terms and agreements. Even if you had the time to read it, you’d need a law degree and a data science background to understand which rights you’re signing away and what frightening experiments Facebook is cooking up with your private life as raw material.
https://www.wired.com/story/privacy-isnt-a-right-you-can-click-away/
#privacy
China's influence via WeChat is 'flying under the radar' of most Western democracies
China's United Front Work Department performs its 'biggest magic' through WeChat. Is it time to rein in its covert influence? Should it even be banned?
China's WeChat, like most social networks, is a haven for disinformation and "fake news". Less well-known, at least in the West, is its role in mobilising Chinese diaspora communities to support particular political policies or people.
These activities are coordinated through a system known as the United Front, a network of party and state agencies that are responsible for influencing purportedly independent groups outside the Chinese Communist Party.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinas-influence-via-wechat-is-flying-under-the-radar-of-most-western-democracies/
https://www.smh.com.au/world/united-front-chinas-important-magic-weapon-20171129-gzv562.html
https://globalnews.ca/news/6858818/coronavirus-china-united-front-canada-protective-equipment-shortage/
#china #wechat
China's United Front Work Department performs its 'biggest magic' through WeChat. Is it time to rein in its covert influence? Should it even be banned?
China's WeChat, like most social networks, is a haven for disinformation and "fake news". Less well-known, at least in the West, is its role in mobilising Chinese diaspora communities to support particular political policies or people.
These activities are coordinated through a system known as the United Front, a network of party and state agencies that are responsible for influencing purportedly independent groups outside the Chinese Communist Party.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinas-influence-via-wechat-is-flying-under-the-radar-of-most-western-democracies/
https://www.smh.com.au/world/united-front-chinas-important-magic-weapon-20171129-gzv562.html
https://globalnews.ca/news/6858818/coronavirus-china-united-front-canada-protective-equipment-shortage/
#china #wechat
NoGoolag
China's influence via WeChat is 'flying under the radar' of most Western democracies China's United Front Work Department performs its 'biggest magic' through WeChat. Is it time to rein in its covert influence? Should it even be banned? China's WeChat, like…
Lmao WeChat is only really used inside China, so I don't see how it influences the 'west' at all.
Much less than how Facebook pushes their own line through Whatsapp, for instance.
The United Front is also simply the only legal front of various subordinate parties in China. It does not work to influence the rest of the world, which is handled by the International Liaison Department and the various security agencies.
There are some url links on zdnet articles, but maybe I should put another links in that post.
NoGoolag
Death of cash to accelerate as digital payments surge after pandemic The use of digital cards and services such as Apple Pay and Android pay is set to increase significantly after lockdown Contactless and digital-only payment methods such as Apple Pay…
You need to use pocket faraday bags if you wanted to use any NFC based payment tools, anyone can make you pay without your consent by placing their device near your pocket where you keep your NFC card. You can also make DIY pocket faraday bag by embedding 20 layers of Aluminium foil to a cloth that will encase your phone
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Reclaim our Privacy
📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious
📡 Globally running surveillance projects: Here
📖 How to protect yourself:
PrivacyTools🎖 || ProPrivacy || EFF || Securityinabox
🛠 Services/Software Alternatives
AlternativeTo🎖 || OSALT
PrismBreak || DeGoogled-Life
📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#Surveillance #Privacy #Alternatives #Encryption
A short video that explains the threats to our privacy, the importance of its protection and the tools that can help us to reclaim it.📹 Watch it via:
YouTube || Invidious
📡 Globally running surveillance projects: Here
📖 How to protect yourself:
PrivacyTools🎖 || ProPrivacy || EFF || Securityinabox
🛠 Services/Software Alternatives
AlternativeTo🎖 || OSALT
PrismBreak || DeGoogled-Life
📡 @howtobeprivateonline
#Surveillance #Privacy #Alternatives #Encryption
SafetyNet’s dreaded hardware attestation is rolling out, making it much harder for Magisk to hide root
https://www.xda-developers.com/safetynet-hardware-attestation-hide-root-magisk
#safetynet #root #magisk #android
https://www.xda-developers.com/safetynet-hardware-attestation-hide-root-magisk
#safetynet #root #magisk #android
XDA
SafetyNet's dreaded hardware attestation is rolling out, making it much harder for Magisk to hide root
Hiding root access in Magisk is about to become a whole lot harder to do thanks to a recent change in SafetyNet bringing hardware attestation.
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NordVPN makes data transfer to law enforcement agencies official
In a revised data protection statement, the VPN provider NordVPN admits that the processed customer data will be passed on to the authorities as of July 1, if the available data allows them to identify a criminal.
‼️ Privacy Policy - NordVPN
https://my.nordaccount.com/legal/privacy-policy/
#NordVPN #privacy #ourdata #thinkabout
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📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
In a revised data protection statement, the VPN provider NordVPN admits that the processed customer data will be passed on to the authorities as of July 1, if the available data allows them to identify a criminal.
‼️ Privacy Policy - NordVPN
https://my.nordaccount.com/legal/privacy-policy/
#NordVPN #privacy #ourdata #thinkabout
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
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📡@NoGoolag
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Nordaccount
Nord Account
Encryption-powered security at your fingertips.
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Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective
This article is first to report on the secret European five-partner sigint alliance Maximator that started in the late 1970s. It discloses the name Maximator and provides documentary evidence. The five members of this European alliance are Denmark Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. The cooperation involves both signals analysis and crypto analysis. The Maximator alliance has remained secret for almost fifty years, in contrast to its Anglo-Saxon Five-Eyes counterpart. The existence of this European sigint alliance gives a novel perspective on western sigint collaborations in the late twentieth century.
The article explains and illustrates, with relatively much attention for the cryptographic details, how the five Maximator participants strengthened their effectiveness via the information about rigged cryptographic devices that its German partner provided, via the joint U.S.-German ownership and control of the Swiss producer Crypto AG of cryptographic devices.
1. Introduction
The post-Second World War signals intelligence (SIGINT) cooperation between five Anglo-Saxon countries – Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the United States – is well-documented.1 This alliance is often called Five Eyes and is based on the 1946 UKUSA Agreement. What is not publicly known so far is that there is a second, parallel, western signals intelligence alliance, namely in north-western Europe, also with five members. It has existed since 1976 and is called Maximator. It comprises Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands and is still active today.
The Maximator alliance deepens our understanding of the recently-revealed operation Thesaurus/Rubicon: the joint CIA-BND ownership and control of the Swiss manufacturer of cryptographic equipment Crypto AG, from 1970 to 1993.2 Crucial information about the inner workings (and weaknesses) of cryptographic devices sold by Crypto AG (and by other companies) were distributed within the Maximator network. This allowed the participants to decrypt intercepted messages from the more than one hundred countries that had bought compromised devices from the 1970s onwards.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2020.1743538
#Maximator #SIGINT #eu #cia #bnd #FiveEyes
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
This article is first to report on the secret European five-partner sigint alliance Maximator that started in the late 1970s. It discloses the name Maximator and provides documentary evidence. The five members of this European alliance are Denmark Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. The cooperation involves both signals analysis and crypto analysis. The Maximator alliance has remained secret for almost fifty years, in contrast to its Anglo-Saxon Five-Eyes counterpart. The existence of this European sigint alliance gives a novel perspective on western sigint collaborations in the late twentieth century.
The article explains and illustrates, with relatively much attention for the cryptographic details, how the five Maximator participants strengthened their effectiveness via the information about rigged cryptographic devices that its German partner provided, via the joint U.S.-German ownership and control of the Swiss producer Crypto AG of cryptographic devices.
1. Introduction
The post-Second World War signals intelligence (SIGINT) cooperation between five Anglo-Saxon countries – Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and the United States – is well-documented.1 This alliance is often called Five Eyes and is based on the 1946 UKUSA Agreement. What is not publicly known so far is that there is a second, parallel, western signals intelligence alliance, namely in north-western Europe, also with five members. It has existed since 1976 and is called Maximator. It comprises Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands and is still active today.
The Maximator alliance deepens our understanding of the recently-revealed operation Thesaurus/Rubicon: the joint CIA-BND ownership and control of the Swiss manufacturer of cryptographic equipment Crypto AG, from 1970 to 1993.2 Crucial information about the inner workings (and weaknesses) of cryptographic devices sold by Crypto AG (and by other companies) were distributed within the Maximator network. This allowed the participants to decrypt intercepted messages from the more than one hundred countries that had bought compromised devices from the 1970s onwards.
👉🏼 Read more:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2020.1743538
#Maximator #SIGINT #eu #cia #bnd #FiveEyes
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
Taylor & Francis
Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective
This article is first to report on the secret European five-partner sigint alliance Maximator that started in the late 1970s. It discloses the name Maximator and provides documentary evidence. The ...
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Don’t Use WhatsApp - I gathered 17 reasons why not to use WhatsApp (which you can send to friends & colleagues when they ask why you don't use WhatsApp)
💡 Reasons Why You Should Not Use WhatsApp:
❗️ The founder of WhatsApp – Brian Acton – tweeted on March 21st 2018: “It is time. #deletefacebook”
❗️ WhatsApp is forced to disclosed encrypted messages to authorities
❗️ Brian Acton admits: “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day.”
❗️ Jan Koum left Facebook over data privacy issues.
❗️ WhatsApp had a security issue with the way it handles video which allowed hackers to take control of your phone
❗️ WhatsApp commits major security errors on a regular basis, which are suitable for surveillance
❗️ Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has been hacked due to WhatsApp’s security flaws
❗️ Facebook is collaborating with the NSA and FBI
❗️ WhatsApp was used to target 100 journalists and dissidents
❗️ United Nations officials are banned from using WhatsApp
❗️ WhatsApp disclosed 12 security flaws in 2019, including 7 classified as “critical”
❗️ EU Commission orders staff to switch from WhatsApp to Signal
❗️ Facebook’s executives proposed to weakening its encryption to enable easier access for businesses
❗️ Facebook is “the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in history”
❗️ WhatsApp ranked worst for user’s data privacy in internet snooping report
❗️ WhatsApp messages are stored unencrypted on iCloud or Google Drive
❗️ Telegram is banned in countries like Russia and Iran while WhatsApp is freely available
👉🏼 Read the entire version and find all sources 👈🏼
👉🏼 Reasons Why You Should Not Use WhatsApp:
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/gdhrw9/i_gathered_17_reasons_why_not_to_use_whatsapp/
#wa #DeleteWhatsApp #fb #DeleteFacebook #DontUseWhatsApp
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
💡 Reasons Why You Should Not Use WhatsApp:
❗️ The founder of WhatsApp – Brian Acton – tweeted on March 21st 2018: “It is time. #deletefacebook”
❗️ WhatsApp is forced to disclosed encrypted messages to authorities
❗️ Brian Acton admits: “I sold my users’ privacy to a larger benefit. I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day.”
❗️ Jan Koum left Facebook over data privacy issues.
❗️ WhatsApp had a security issue with the way it handles video which allowed hackers to take control of your phone
❗️ WhatsApp commits major security errors on a regular basis, which are suitable for surveillance
❗️ Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, has been hacked due to WhatsApp’s security flaws
❗️ Facebook is collaborating with the NSA and FBI
❗️ WhatsApp was used to target 100 journalists and dissidents
❗️ United Nations officials are banned from using WhatsApp
❗️ WhatsApp disclosed 12 security flaws in 2019, including 7 classified as “critical”
❗️ EU Commission orders staff to switch from WhatsApp to Signal
❗️ Facebook’s executives proposed to weakening its encryption to enable easier access for businesses
❗️ Facebook is “the biggest surveillance-based enterprise in history”
❗️ WhatsApp ranked worst for user’s data privacy in internet snooping report
❗️ WhatsApp messages are stored unencrypted on iCloud or Google Drive
❗️ Telegram is banned in countries like Russia and Iran while WhatsApp is freely available
👉🏼 Read the entire version and find all sources 👈🏼
👉🏼 Reasons Why You Should Not Use WhatsApp:
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/gdhrw9/i_gathered_17_reasons_why_not_to_use_whatsapp/
#wa #DeleteWhatsApp #fb #DeleteFacebook #DontUseWhatsApp
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@NoGoolag
📡@BlackBox
Why Trump’s administration is going after the GDPR
U.S. officials are ramping up criticism of Europe’s flagship privacy law, which they say protects cybercriminals.
U.S. troops being yanked out of Germany. A brewing trade war over digital tax. Now add this to the list of issues dividing Europe and the United States: a looming clash over privacy.
As the EU touts the “success” of its flagship privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up attacks on a system it says provides cover to cybercriminals and threatens public health.
In an interview with POLITICO, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cyber Rob Strayer said he is raising concerns about the GDPR with counterparts in Brussels and EU capitals as a “top diplomatic issue.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/trump-administration-gdpr-345254
#eu #us #gdpr #privacy
U.S. officials are ramping up criticism of Europe’s flagship privacy law, which they say protects cybercriminals.
U.S. troops being yanked out of Germany. A brewing trade war over digital tax. Now add this to the list of issues dividing Europe and the United States: a looming clash over privacy.
As the EU touts the “success” of its flagship privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up attacks on a system it says provides cover to cybercriminals and threatens public health.
In an interview with POLITICO, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cyber Rob Strayer said he is raising concerns about the GDPR with counterparts in Brussels and EU capitals as a “top diplomatic issue.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/trump-administration-gdpr-345254
#eu #us #gdpr #privacy