Privacy Digest 13/24
AI tools are illegally training on real children, including for explicit material
170 photos of Brazilian children have been scraped without parental consent, Human Rights Watch said.
fortune.com
Microsoft informs customers that Russian hackers spied on emails
Russian hackers who broke into Microsoft's opens new tab systems and spied on staff inboxes earlier this year also stole emails from its customers, the tech giant said, around six months after it first disclosed the intrusion.
reuters.com
Top travel apps harvesting your data without asking
Booking.com, MakeMyTrip, and HotelTonight excel in data collection, a Cybernews investigation revealed. Travel apps track user locations, with some, including Booking.com, not disclosing this. Additionally, certain apps can read SMS messages, access cameras and microphones, read files, and make calls. Despite these privacy concerns, users continue to rely on these apps for trip planning. The report advises on mitigating the data collection by these apps.
cybernews.com
Google Chrome Will Track You For The Next 200 Days—Then It May Get Worse
Yes, you are being tracked—but the much more alarming issue is what happens next... Share Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker as a solution to everyone you care about.
forbes.com
‘Encryption is deeply threatening to power’: Meredith Whittaker of messaging app Signal
The woman in charge of the secure communication channel remains implacably opposed to the ‘disease’ of surveillance – and concerned about the sharing of personal data
theguardian.com