Lawyer’s Phone, Laptop Confiscated Because He Didn’t Share Passwords With Can... Snapchat workers snooped on users with internal tool. Snapchat’s 186 million users may be in for a rude awakening today after revelation that multiple employees of the social media giant were able to abuse their power and snoop on members.
As Motherboard journalist Joseph Cox describes, current and former employees of Snap have described how an internal tool – which was only supposed to be used in response to valid law enforcement requests – was used by staff to access users’ saved photos and videos, and personal information such as phone numbers and email addresses. Police Can Download All Your Smartphone's Data Without A Warrant.
Police officers can download the contents of your mobile phone without a warrant – even if you have not been charged with any crime.
A new report by Privacy International shows that since 2012, police forces across the UK have been downloading data from the smartphones of suspects, victims and witnesses, often without obtaining permission. What’s more, they may be storing this data indefinitely, even when no charges are brought. Go On, Tell Me The Numbers…
WhatsApp. Apple apologizes for privacy-invading FaceTime bug, promises delayed software update. Apple has issued an apology for the recently-discovered bug that made it possible to eavesdrop on people via FaceTime.
The company had promised that a software update would be delivered later this week, but the interim solution was to simply disable the group FaceTime feature server-side. Apple now says that the problem has been fully fixed, but a software update that re-enables the group function will not be issued until next week. See also: Apple to 'rapidly address' security holes as tech companies respond to CIA leak. Apple has promised to “rapidly address” any security holes used by the CIA to hack iPhones, following the release of a huge tranche of documents covering the intelligence agency’s stockpile of software vulnerabilities.
The leak, dubbed “Vault 7” by its publisher WikiLeaks, is made up of a collection of around 10,000 individual documents created between 2014 and 2016. A spokesman for the CIA said it would not comment “on the authenticity or content of purported intelligence documents” and the Trump administration spokesman Sean Spicer also declined comment.
Apple, one of numerous tech companies whose devices appear to have been targeted, released a statement late on Tuesday saying many of the vulnerabilities described by the documents were already fixed as of the latest version of its iOS mobile operating system, and aimed to reassure customers that it was working on patching the rest of the holes. Supreme Court rules cell phones cannot be searched without a warrant. Police need a warrant to search the cell phone of a person who has been arrested, absent special circumstances, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
“Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans ‘the privacies of life,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought. Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple — get a warrant.” MSNBC Live with Tamron Hall , 6/25/14, 11:00 AM ET SCOTUS: Cell phone searches require warrant NBC’s Pete Williams reports on Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling that requires police to obtain a warrant to search the cell phone of a person who has been arrested. How to understand what info mobile apps collect about you. Net.wars: After the search. A Senator Will Introduce Legislation Requiring Warrants Before Phones Can Be Searched At The US Border - BuzzFeed News.
How secure is your iPhone 5S fingerprint? 12 min ago | ChinaTechNews.com Alibaba Throws Money At Internet Privacy Hu Xiaoming, Alibaba's vice president for small- and micro-financial group and chief risk officer, announced in Beijing that the company will invest CNY40 million to establish a security fund.
Trending on the Topix Network 12 min ago | ComputerWorld Dropbox angling for larger corporate share. Metropolitan Police launches campaign to tackle rising iPhone theft. More than 5,000 iPhones – and 7,000 mobile phones overall – are stolen in the capital every month, according the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS).
In a big to help reduce crime levels – 3,500 people have been arrested for mobile device thefts this year – the MPS has launched the “Love your Phone” initiative. People are naturally distracted in busy environments, such as cafés, bars and pubs, so we are working with the owners, giving crime prevention advice and information about local criminals to help them keep their customers safe and keep the thieves out. As part of the operation, police will be targeting crime hotspots by stepping up patrols and educating users to increase awareness of and, ultimately reduce, robbery incidents.
Around 70 per cent of all thefts in the capital involve mobile phones – with 80 per cent of those targeting iPhones. Verizon Spying Controversy Confuses Executive, Implies Personal Privacy Is Gone. PhoneSecurity. Apple v FBI.