Alternatives to WhatsApp ensure more data protection

Apr 26, 2022 @ 7:29pm messenger services : Alternatives to WhatsApp bring better data protection – There are many different messenger services on the market. Photo: dpa/Frank Rumpenhorst – – Düsseldorf Messenger WhatsApp is repeatedly criticized for its sometimes inadequate data protection. There are many alternatives. The consumer advice center knows what users need to … Read more

Facebook and Apple have released user data to hackers

Denise Bergert Hackers have tricked Facebook and Apple into handing over user data with fake emergency data requests. – Enlarge Apple and Meta have allegedly fallen for bogus emergency data requests. © Meta – – – Apple and Meta (operator of Facebook) shared user data with hackers who made fake urgent data requests to the … Read more

Apple and Meta share user data with hackers

According to a media report, the companies Apple and Meta have passed on user data to hackers who had posed as law enforcement agencies. The Lapsus$ group may be involved. Apple and the Facebook group Meta are said to have passed on user data to hackers, reports the US magazine “Bloomberg”. The attackers had compromised … Read more

Whoops! TikTok Privacy Policy Allegedly Captured User’s Important Data

Techno Compass – Illustration of TikTok’s privacy policy allegedly stealing important user data. – Nextren.com – TikTok just launched a privacy policy latest for approval by its users. However, there are several things that trigger a question, where in privacy policy that, TikTok states that it will have permission and analyze user content. Even the … Read more

Full text BGH: Facebook against the Federal Cartel Office

Written by lawyer Marcus Beckmann on Monday, January 11, 2021 BGH Decision of December 15, 2020KVZ 90/20 Facebook II GWB §§ 74, 75 We had already reported on the decision in the article BGH: Non-admission complaint in the matter of Facebook against the Federal Cartel Office – BGH examines requirements for “hanging decisions” in cartel … Read more

Hot Caution! Facebook Accuses Apple of Anti-Competition

Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Facebook Inc accuses Apple Inc of anti-competitive practices through changes to its privacy rules which are planned to be rolled out via iOS 14. Apple previously implemented new rules of labeling apps that allow users to block advertisers from tracking them after downloading apps from the App Store. “Apple is behaving … Read more

Face recognition: Microsoft distances itself from the start-up AnyVision

Microsoft has announced that it will distance itself from the Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision. Since external groups are difficult to control, the Redmond company would like to have such technology developed exclusively in-house in the future. Microsoft originally acquired shares in AnyVision as part of the M12 risk fund. The Israeli start-up is working … Read more

Lawsuit against Amazon and Ring for access to WLAN cameras

AgainstAmazonand the subsidiary Ring is now pending a class action lawsuit in the United States. The companies have to answer for the security problems with the ring camera system, but so far have denied all allegations. At the beginning of December it became known that the surveillance camera manufacturer Ring handled the security of the … Read more

Citrix: Vulnerabilities endanger over 80,000 companies worldwide

A security vulnerability can be found in many Citrix products and is said to have existed since 2014. The vulnerability that gives hackers access to local networks affects over 80,000 companies worldwide. No official patch is available yet. The under the identifier “CVE-2019-19781“Vulnerability led allowed hackers to get into the internal networks of companies in … Read more