Chinese company ByteDance faces growing concerns from governments and regulators that its user data from its popular short video-sharing app TikTok could be handed over to the Chinese government. The concern is based on...more
3/3/2023
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China ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Mobile Apps ,
National Security ,
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Regulatory Agenda ,
Social Media ,
TikTok
Location data is data that marks the longitude/latitude location of a smartphone or other device at a particular time, or over a period of time. It works like this: each day our device, which has a unique identifier or ID,...more
Facebook reports that the personal data of 87 million Facebook users, mostly located in the United States, “may have been improperly shared” with British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. ...more
On March 16, David Carroll, a New York based American professor sued Cambridge Analytica (CA) in the U.K. courts, after the data analytics firm allegedly failed to respond to his request made pursuant to the U.K. Data...more
Security researchers this week have found a new vulnerability that affects Wi-Fi Protected Access II, also known as WPA2, which is the security protocol used by many wireless networks. The vulnerability, Key Reinstallation...more
10/24/2017
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Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Drones ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Email ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
Hackers ,
Hyatt ,
Microsoft ,
Mobile Devices ,
Network Security ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Public Wireless Networks ,
Risk Management ,
SCOTUS ,
Stored Communications Act ,
US-CERT ,
Vulnerability Assessments ,
Wifi ,
Wireless Technology
Tobias Boelter, a University of California Berkeley cryptography researcher claims that last year he found a security flaw in WhatsApp’s encrypted smart phone messaging application. The flaw, which relates to the unique...more
2/6/2017
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Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Facebook ,
Germany ,
Mobile Apps ,
Mobile Devices ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Social Networks ,
WhatsApp
A number of courts have considered whether the Fourth Amendment requires the government to obtain a warrant to access historical and/or real time cell phone geographic location information, known as CSLI. CSLI is cell site...more
8/10/2015
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Criminal Investigations ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
FL Supreme Court ,
Fourth Amendment ,
Geolocation ,
Popular ,
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy ,
SCOTUS ,
Search Warrant ,
Smartphones ,
Warrantless Searches
The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral argument for September 9, 2015 on Microsoft’s appeal of a district court opinion upholding the validity of the U.S. government’s search warrant for customer data stored...more
Earlier this year, an affiliate of the hedge fund Standard General LP assumed more than 1,700 RadioShack® store leases in an auction sale in the electronics retailer’s bankruptcy. Standard General reportedly plans to partner...more
5/26/2015
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AT&T ,
Business Assets ,
Commercial Bankruptcy ,
Commercial Leases ,
Customer Lists ,
Data Collection ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
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RadioShack ,
Retailers
College and universities, like many other businesses and organizations, defend against millions of cyberattacks each day. Most recently, Penn State’s College of Engineering discovered a multi-year long cyberattack seeking...more