The New Oil

June 16, 2020


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IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft stop offering facial recognition to police

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21284683/ibm-no-longer-general-purpose-facial-recognition-analysis-software

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/10/21287101/amazon-rekognition-facial-recognition-police-ban-one-year-ai-racial-bias

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/11/microsoft-facial-recognition/

Google resumes its senseless attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 85

https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/12/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary/

Feds comb Facebook to hunt down alleged rioters and looters

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/facebook-riot-loot-justice-department-314567

A Bug in Facebook Messenger for Windows Could've Helped Malware Gain Persistence

https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/facebook-malware-persistence.html

Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation

https://business.financialpost.com/technology/tim-hortons-app-tracking-customers-intimate-data

Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More

https://www.wired.com/story/dating-apps-leak-explicit-photos-screenshots/

Virtual doctor app Babylon accidentally showed videos of other patients’ GP appointments

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2020/06/10/virtual-doctor-app-babylon-accidentally-showed-videos-patients/

Teacher Spying on Student During Virtual Class Sends Cops to Search 11-Year-Old's Home After Spotting a BB Gun

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2020/06/11/teacher-spying-on-student-during-virtual-class-sends-cops-to-search-11-year-olds-home-after-spotting-a-bb-gun-n518679

What It’s Like to Get Doxed for Taking a Bike Ride

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/what-its-like-to-get-doxed-for-taking-a-bike-ride.html

‘We are going to crush this lady’: Six former eBay employees charged in federal cyberstalking case targeting Natick couple

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/15/metro/six-former-ebay-employees-charged-federal-cyberstalking-case-targeting-natick-couple/

Amazon's Alexa may have witnessed alleged Florida murder, authorities say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amazon-s-alexa-may-have-witnessed-alleged-florida-murder-authorities-n1075621

T-Mobile, Fortnite, Instagram, Comcast, And Chase Bank Have All Experienced Outages. Some Believe The U.S. Has Been Hit By Large-Scale DDoS Attack—Others Are Skeptical. (Updated)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessedamiani/2020/06/15/t-mobile-fortnite-instagram-comcast-and-chase-bank-have-all-experienced-outages-some-believe-the-us-has-been-hit-by-large-scale-ddos-attack-others-are-skeptical/#389f01884b2a

City of Knoxville shuts down network after ransomware attack

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/city-of-knoxville-shuts-down-network-after-ransomware-attack/

Honda global operations halted by ransomware attack

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/09/honda-ransomware-snake/

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