Now fixed, the Vatican’s new fitness-and-prayer eRosary and its accompanying app, Click to Pray, were found to have a serious privacy bug.
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Much-attacked Baltimore uses ‘mind-bogglingly’ bad data storage
IT workers have been storing files on their computers’ hard drives. One councilman’s alleged response: “That can’t be right? That’s real?”
Apple removes app that tracks Hong Kong police and protestors
Apple was under fire this week after banning an app that tracked the location of both police and protesters in Hong Kong on a live map.
Nationwide facial recognition ID program underway in France
It’s coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator’s protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy.
Facebook urged by governments to halt end-to-end encryption plans
The US, UK and Australian governments last week officially urged Facebook to halt its plans for end-to-end encryption.
Hacking 2020 voting systems is a ‘piece of cake’
That’s how Senator Wyden described the results of DefCon’s Voting Village, where all of 100 voting systems were easily picked apart by hackers.
China’s 500 megapixel camera is capable of mega-facial-recognition
The ‘super camera’ can identifying people dozens of meters away using facial recognition.
Report: Use of AI surveillance is growing around the world
It’s not just China: at least 75 out of 176 countries globally are actively using AI technologies for surveillance purposes, research shows.
Air Force to offer up a satellite to hackers at Defcon 2020
This year, the Air Force presented vetted hackers with a plane’s subsystem, which they duly tore up. Next year, it will be a satellite.
US files suit against Snowden to keep book profits out of his hands
The government, alleging that Snowden violated NDAs with the CIA and NSA, isn’t looking to stop the book’s publication or distribution.