LG's smart TV privacy woes continue as Portugal's Citizen Voice asks the court to investigate. Are smart TVs too keen to gather data?

Lawmakers in the U.K. say smart glasses raise serious questions about consent and privacy.

Israeli spy outfit Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling network of dodgy online ads ​that it used to track, surveil, and geolocate internet users. In some instances simply having the firm’s “zero click” spyware ads displayed by devices resulted in infection. The company seemed particularly interested in using ads to surveil and geolocate…

The review agency says information publicly available online can still raise privacy concerns when it's collected and analyzed by government organizations.

The internet is losing it.

The department will reopen the $750,000 contract for FalcoNet, an AI-driven cellphone tracker from Cognyte, to competitive bids, and Cognyte can still bid, the Daily News reported. Meta said in 2021 it removed about 100 accounts linked to the firm, whose customers targeted journalists and politicians.

"It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares."

Our government is on the brink of passing a completely totalitarian bill which would demolish our freedoms and effectively destroy our right to privacy. The bill I am writing about is Bill C-22, specifically the "Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act" portion of the bill. It would give the government the ability to require backdoors into any piece of electronic service it sees fit. This is an extremely dangerous precedent to set, it completely undermines the ability for Canadians to technologically enforce privacy and makes the work of at risk peoples such as journalists, whistleblowers and anybody who receives scrutiny from the state infinitely harder. The government should not have the capability to get every digital interaction an individual has and definitely should not have the ability to force developers to make their software less secure. Even if you have a complete and total trust in the state to act in your best interest and never use this power unlawfully the standards for accessing this data could lower, this bill lowers the standards for obtaining warrants. These backdoors could also be hacked and accessed by malicious actors to obtain personal information about private citizens whenever they wish. As Canadians we have to fight these laws by forming a movement against them, we must organize protests against bill C-22. If you support this message please spread the word and try to organize a demonstration in your local community, together we can fight back against this tyrannical bill.

Please repost this letter anywhere you wish to encourage mroe people to speak out and demonstrate against this bill.

We have talked about the Wyden Siren many times before. Senator Ron Wyden learns, through classified briefings, that the intelligence community is doing something most Americans would consider a clear violation of their civil liberties — often justified by interpreting plain English words to mean something no other English speaker would recognize. But because that…

Federated Learning: Unlocking the power of collaborative AI without ever moving user data from local devices. Why the age of massive, centralized AI data collection is ending—and how collaborative edge training is transforming digital privacy. Over the last decade, AI progress was driven by a simple rule: bring all the data to one place. Whether training speech models on smartphone recordings or medical models on hospital records, the standard procedure required uploading vast datasets from edge d...

If you had a suspicion your modern car is spying on you, you’re probably right. Vehicles these days are connected to the Internet of Things, able to feed data back to the cloud in real time. Once it’s there, what happens next may not be something you explicitly agreed to. Now the tide is starting…

The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.

Zack Whittaker reports: Security researchers at digital rights unit The Citizen Lab say government spyware makers are abusing global advertising networks to target and hack devices by serving malicious online adverts. A new report published Thursday by the University of Toronto lab, which investigates surveillance and digital rights abuses, said an Israeli company called Discover-Tech...

Two US senators say the Trump administration is breaking the law by withholding the FISA court decision while it presses Congress to renew America’s most sweeping surveillance program.

350 federal web addresses, including the FBI tip line and a veterans crisis service, let network snoops see who visits.

"...there is no boundary anymore; the system is acting as your advisor, your friend, your doctor, your lawyer, and so it has information on everything."

A hacker reverse-engineered his own Samsung TV and found alarming spying activity, including code that used connected devices' microphones to listen to users.

Proton is hosting a public map showing more than 300,000 Flock surveillance devices across the United States, preserving access to a research project whose creator faces legal threats and intimidation. The map draws on an inventory obtained by cybersecurity researcher Joshua Michael from Flock’s own systems. According to Proton, it includes more than 170,000 cameras …

The banned items — a wireless video transmitter and dashboard camera — are made with chips manufactured by Huawei subsidiary HiSilicon, which markets its products as “designed for the surveillance market.”

Two critical vulnerabilities discovered in the widely-used PHP programming language have shaken up enterprises, and the ramifications will take some time to truly understand. But one of the lesser-known stories centers around disclosure. According to The PHP Foundation, several organizations had agreed to a coordinated release detailing the critical flaws and mitigation actions, but cybersecurity firm Chainguard “unlaterally” broke this embargo. This prompted the PHP project...

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