The Council of the European Union sent a memo summarizing its thoughts on the “need to mitigate security risks linked to 5G”.
Tag Archives: Mobile
TikTok settles class action over child privacy one day after it’s filed
The $1.1m settlement is an “excellent result,” TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it’s dirt cheap.
US parents file class action against TikTok over children’s privacy
Collecting children’s data without their guardians’ consent is illegal under COPPA and already earned TikTok a huge fine.
Critical DoS messaging flaw fixed in December Android update
Android’s December 2019 updates arrived this week, patching a small list of system and Qualcomm flaws across the operating system’s two patch levels.
Yodel parcel tracking app blabs about other people’s parcels
Yodel’s mobile parcel delivery app was leaking people’s delivery data to others using the app, a security researcher discovered.
FBI: Russia-based FaceApp is a ‘potential counterintelligence threat’
It’s a grabby little app, data-wise, but how is it different from, say, Google or Facebook?
Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs
Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.
Court says suspect can’t be forced to reveal 64-character password
We have to protect the constitutional rights of the innocent, and that can mean shielding guilty-as-hell child abusers, the court said.
Russia to ban sale of devices that don’t come with “Russian software”
The Russian Government’s campaign to control how its citizens use the internet seems to be gathering steam.
Convicted Nigerian fraudster keeps a-fraudin’ from behind bars
He was supposed to be serving a 24-year sentence in the “maximum security” prison, not continuing the fraud… and going to parties.
