Privacy

The judge found Google liable for publishing snippets from the site Ripoff Reports, which profits by allowing people to post unvetted “complaints” about others on the site and surfacing them in Google Search. As the judge in Duffy’s last lawsuit noted, would change URLs to keep pages visible.

A 2021 New York Times report about the site noted that Google began downranking Ripoff Reports and similar sites.

This is the arrangement set up by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, or Bundeskartellamt, after an antitrust inquiry under a provision allowing it to intervene “when competition is threatened by large digital companies.”

The regulator mentions it’s still conducting more proceedings against Google (Alphabet), Amazon, Apple, Facebook (Meta), and Microsoft.

In a report on the subject earlier this summer, the state’s Office of IT Services noted that “there are discernable risks to the use of this technology in school settings”.

Victims filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the company after the attack, which as TechCrunch noted saw the leak of social security and other sensitive health information for between 8 and 11 million people.

The NSC says in the letter that stolen data may include SSNs and other personal and school-related records. Bleeping Computer writes that 890 schools’ were affected. The organization acknowledges the breach and subsequent patch on its website.

Seems like Musk may have made some bad decisions:

Now, as they report, while the fraudsters’ access to TLOxp may have ended, its name has become the “Xerox” of doxing, even as criminals use other similar tools to sell detailed reports on people for $15 - $20,

That included the ability for the DOJ and DOD to examine TikTok’s US servers, prevent changes to its privacy policies, and even “veto the hiring” of anyone on its data security team. It’s not clear if any of these purported agreements are still on the table, however, as Forbes says the document was drafted in the summer of 2022.

Described as “conceptually similar to IPFS and Tor,” the team behind it says it will bring the better parts of those with more performance and security for messaging, file-sharing, or social network apps that don’t harvest user data.

As proof of concept, the team has posted source code for VeilidChat, a Signal-like messaging app. There’s more coverage from the Washington Post, Engadget, and The Register.

Details are in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (PDF) here. FCC commissioners are taking input on questions like who will run the program, what kinds of devices it applies to, and what security standards should be involved.

Racial bias in facial recognition hasn’t been solved. Woodruff’s false arrest based on facial recognition isn’t a first for Detroit, which has done this twice before.

CPPA executive director Ashkan Soltani said in the regulator’s release that modern, connected vehicles can gather a “wealth of information” about people in or near them, and the agency wants to know what they’re doing with that data: