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On June 18, Facebook filed a civil lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco against online mobile platform Massroot8 for “scraping” data about Facebook users in violation of both Facebook’s Terms of Service (ToS) and therefore as criminal trespass … Continue reading No Trespassing: Facebook Sues for Data Scraping
Facebook has filed a lawsuit meant to stop scammers from using its name to try stealing from web users. In a lawsuit filed Monday in a Virginia court, the company sued 12 websites registered by Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd., an Indian proxy service. With names like InstagramHijack.com, Videocall-WhatsApp.com and Facebook-Verify-Inc.com, the sites were meant to deceive users and boost internet fraud operations, Facebook alleged. The websites either were offline or included copyright advisories at press time. Although those web URLs are clunky, they look close enough to legitimate addresses to fool people, apparently. Facebook did not specify how the Compsys-registered sites were being used prior to its suit Monday. Phishing operations are one possible use. Anyone who visits a site that appears nearly identical to a true Facebook page, for instance, would be more likely to enter their username or password. It’s the latest example of U.S. companies going to court […]
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Watchdog group said company has violated the Illinois BIPA and ‘will end privacy as we know it’ without intervention. Continue reading ACLU Sues Clearview AI Over Faceprint Collection, Sale
Maps, weather, searches et al. suck up location data in the background, even if Tracking is turned off. Arizona says it’s consumer fraud. Continue reading Google sued by Arizona for tracking users’ locations in spite of settings
Roberto Escobar says a FaceTime eavesdropping bug led to his address being leaked, assassination threats, and being forced into hiding. Continue reading Pablo Escobar’s brother sues Apple for $2.6b over FaceTime flaw
An investigation traces an NSO Group-controlled IP address to a fake Facebook security portal. Continue reading NSO Group Impersonates Facebook Security Team to Spread Spyware — Report
… nor to anybody, even law enforcement, in the place where privacy-oblivious biometrics companies are forced to their knees: Illinois. Continue reading Clearview AI won’t sell vast faceprint collection to private companies
Israeli surveillance software company NSO Group is back in court disputing WhatsApp’s claims that it used U.S.-based infrastructure to launch spyware against thousands of WhatsApp users last year. In court documents filed Thursday, NSO Group rejected Facebook-owned WhatsApp’s allegations that NSO Group used servers from a Los Angeles-based hosting provider, QuadraNet, over 700 times to target WhatsApp users. “Plaintiffs’ new claims about QuadraNet are false: NSO did not contract with QuadraNet to use its California servers,” the filing reads. NSO Group claimed in the filings that even if its spyware, Pegasus, did use QuadraNet servers, it was third-party activity. The company sells its software around the globe to intelligence and law enforcement agencies. “If Pegasus messages did pass through QuadraNet servers, they would have been sent by NSO’s customers, not NSO,” the filing states. “We repeat: NSO Group does not operate the Pegasus technology for its clients,” the spokesperson added. NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio said […]
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In the ongoing legal battle between Facebook and software surveillance company NSO Group, the social media giant is trying to get NSO Group’s legal counsel dismissed because of an alleged conflict of interest. In a court filing made public this week, Facebook asked a federal judge to disqualify law firm King & Spalding from representing NSO Group because the firm previously represented Facebook-owned WhatsApp in a different sealed case that is “substantially related” to the NSO Group one. King & Spalding, an Atlanta-based firm with a range of big corporate clients, has denied there is a conflict of interest, according to the filing. It is the latest twist in a legal tussle that began in October, when Facebook sued NSO Group, alleging that the Israeli company violated a federal anti-hacking law when its malware was used to infect some 1,400 mobile devices, including those of human rights advocates. NSO Group denies the […]
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LabCorp investors have filed a lawsuit against the company following a major data breach last year that was one of three cybersecurity incidents the company has faced since 2018. The suit, filed by shareholder Raymond Eugenio on behalf of LabCorp investors, alleges that the medical testing company’s chief executive, chief financial officer, chief information officer and its board of directors failed to address “persistently deficient” data protection measures regarding the theft of data about millions of people. The legal complaint, first reported by Bloomberg, involves a hack on the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a debt collection agency which made collections on behalf of LabCorp and other medical companies. Hackers stole data about roughly 20 million people, including some 7.7 LabCorp patients, between August 2018 and March 2019. In a separate incident, LabCorp exposed 10,000 medical documents, including patient test results, according to a TechCrunch article published in January. Burlington, […]
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