Joyce E. Cutler reports: A lawsuit accusing Google LLC of violating the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by accessing images collected and packaged by two other companies got a lukewarm reception from a federal judge in Silicon Valley. Judge Beth Labson Freeman with the US District Court for the Northern District of California noted Thursday that the…
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Chair Rodgers & Ranking Member Pallone Introduce Legislation to Protect Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries
The following is a press release issued yesterday by the Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives: Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., (D-NJ) introduced H.R. 7520, the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act, today. The Committee leaders’ bipartisan bill would…
Judge orders NSO to cough up Pegasus super-spyware source code
Thomas Claburn reports: NSO Group, the Israel-based maker of super-charged snoopware Pegasus, has been ordered by a federal judge in California to share the source code for “all relevant spyware” with Meta’s WhatsApp. The order [PDF] from Judge Phyllis Hamilton at the end of last month stems from WhatsApp’s 2019 lawsuit [PDF] against NSO for allegedly spying on 1,400…
These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway.
Stacey Higginbotham and Daniel Wroclawski report: On a recent Thursday afternoon, a Consumer Reports journalist received an email containing a grainy image of herself waving at a doorbell camera she’d set up at her back door. If the message came from a complete stranger, it would have been alarming. Instead, it was sent by Steve…