#dataprivacy

👁️ Smart glasses with native facial recognition. Residential surveillance networks. License plate tracking. As biometric wearables and AI-powered surveillance tools proliferate, the conversation around consent, oversight, and civil liberties has never been more urgent. Where do we draw the line? 🔗 https://provadivita.com/biometric-injection-attacks/ #BiometricPrivacy #FacialRecognition #SurveillanceTech #DataPrivacy #AIEthics #DigitalRights #BiometricSecurity #EPIC

Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption A lawsuit filed in San Francisco alleges that #WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption contains backdoors allowing #Meta employees to access user messages in real-time. According to the complaint, internal tools allow engineers to view chats by User ID without a separate decryption step, bypassing the Signal Protocol protections the app claims to use. The lawsuit cites £whistleblowers who claim that workers can request access to specific accounts via internal tasks, gaining unlimited temporal scope to a user's history, including deleted messages. Meta has labeled these claims false and absurd. Technical experts note that while the Signal Protocol itself is mathematically secure, the integrity of end-to-end encryption relies entirely on the security of the endpoints. Potential vulnerabilities in WhatsApp include unencrypted cloud backups, metadata collection, and the fact that the client software is closed-source. Without the ability to audit the code or verify public keys through an independent directory, users must trust that the application is not exfiltrating plaintext data before it is encrypted for transit. The legal action highlights the ongoing tension between corporate privacy marketing and the technical reality of centralized messaging platforms. If the allegations of an internal "widget" for message access are proven true, it would represent a fundamental breach of the encryption standards Meta has advertised since 2016. https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/01/27/0550249/lawsuit-alleges-that-whatsapp-has-no-end-to-end-encryption #WhatsApp #Meta #Privacy #CyberSecurity #Encryption #DataPrivacy #E2EE #TechNews #Lawsuit #Whistleblower #DigitalRights #Messaging #InformationSecurity #SignalProtocol

Today is #DataPrivacyDay. Have you heard of California's DROP? It's a new way for Californians a way to delete their personal information from hundreds of data brokers at once! https://hkamran.com/article/california-drop #DataPrivacy #DataPrivacyWeek

After years of bipartisan attacks on TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, which for a time included an effort to potentially ban the social media app in the U.S., a new U.S. TikTok spinoff has been announced, set to be owned and overseen by a tight-knit consortium of tech and financial megabillionaires, many of whom have had direct business relationships with Trump and members of his… Source This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.

Instagram denies a breach after mass password reset emails, citing a fixed bug — but third-party researchers report conflicting data as 6.2M emails appear in HIBP. https://www.technadu.com/instagram-denies-data-breach-after-password-reset-emails-6-2m-accounts-added-to-hibp/618128/ #InfoSec #DataPrivacy #IncidentResponse