Google stored G Suite passwords in plain text for 14 years
May
23
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Thu
Google announced this week that some of its G Suite customers had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext… for 14 years. Oops. G Suite is a business version of popular Google apps like Hangouts, Drive, Docs, and Gmail.
Datenschutz ein weiterer Notfall für Notfalldienste
Nov
14
Wed
Wed
Polizei, Feuerwehr und Rettungsdienste arbeiten täglich an vorderster Front, um Leben zu retten und zu schützen. Ein weiteres Risiko sollte aber dringend angesprochen werden. Im Rahmen ihrer Tätigkeiten händeln Notfalldienste täglich Unmengen persönlicher und vertraulicher Daten und Informationen und es ist ihre ethische und rechtliche Pflicht, diese zusammen mit ihrer internen Kommunikation zu schützen.
Data protection another urgent task for emergency services
Nov
13
Tue
Tue
Another urgent task for the emergency services
Data security is not longer a choice but a massive moral and legal obligation that has to be addressed
Data security is not longer a choice but a massive moral and legal obligation that has to be addressed
Facebook working on software that secretly forces phone to record audio
Jun
22
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Fri
Facebook is working on software that orders users’ smartphones to record audio when triggered by an inaudible sound hidden in TV ads. In a patent application published on June 14, Facebook’s research division revealed a system which lets it secretly tell people’s mobile phones to capture “ambient audio.”
Firm ban popular messengers amid data privacy concerns
Jun
7
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Thu
German auto parts maker Continental is taking a pro-active approach to cyber security and data privacy by banning its 240,000 employees from using WhatsApp and Snapchat on company-issued mobile phones.
Apple want to stop Facebook web-tracking
Jun
4
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Mon
Good news for people who are uncomfortable with Facebook following them around the web without their consent, and for people who like seeing tech giants having a scrap. Apple has announced new features within the next version of its iOS and Mac operating systems to block Facebook web tracking.
Big data conference creeped out by comments from genomics company head
May
30
Wed
Wed
An ethical spotlight has been put on China’s genomics industry after the president of the country’s leading genomics company BGI, Wang Jian, revealed its employees were not allowed to have children with birth defects.
Google tries to patent technique inventor made public
May
22
Tue
Tue
Google is accused of trying to patent a compression technique that the inventor intentionally released into the public domain. Polish academic, Jarek Duda created asymmetric numeral systems (ANS) between 2006 and 2013. The lossless data compression system is three to 30 times faster than classic Huffman and arithmetic coding so an ANS-related patent could mean big royalty bucks. However, Duda chose to dedicate it to the public domain.