I always classify these types of attacks as ‘Proof of Concept’ attacks. No matter who actually did it, or why they did it, it points out what is possible. And everyone makes note.
https://www.wired.com/story/france-paris-internet-cable-cuts-attack/
The Unsolved Mystery Attack on Internet Cables in Paris
BURIED DEEP BENEATH your feet lie the cables that keep the internet online. Crossing cities, countrysides, and seas, the internet backbone carries all the data needed to keep economies running and your Instagram feed scrolling. Unless, of course, someone chops the wires in half.
On April 27, an unknown individual or group deliberately cut crucial long-distance internet cables across multiple sites near Paris, plunging thousands of people into a connectivity blackout. The vandalism was one of the most significant internet infrastructure attacks in France’s history and highlights the vulnerability of key communications technologies.
Now, months after the attacks took place, French internet companies and telecom experts familiar with the incidents say the damage was more wide-ranging than initially reported and extra security measures are needed to prevent future attacks. In total, around 10 internet and infrastructure companies—from ISPs to cable owners—were impacted by the attacks, telecom insiders say.
Is this force? Hold the iPhone up to a suspects face or mug shot or Facebook image?
The FBI Forced A Suspect To Unlock Amazon’s Encrypted App Wickr With Their Face
Thomas Brewster reports:
In November last year, an undercover agent with the FBI was inside a group on Amazon-owned messaging app Wickr, with a name referencing young girls. The group was devoted to sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) within the protection of the encrypted app, which is also used by the U.S. government, journalists and activists for private communications. Encryption makes it almost impossible for law enforcement to intercept messages sent over Wickr, but this agent had found a way to infiltrate the chat, where they could start piecing together who was sharing the material.
As part of the investigation into the members of this Wickr group, the FBI used a previously unreported search warrant method to force one member to unlock the encrypted messaging app using his face.
Read more at Forbes.
Perspective.
A Faustian Bargain: Is Preemption Too High a Price for a Federal Privacy Law?
… I see hope breaking out all over the Twitterverse. The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) advanced out of Committee. This is still an early round in the Squid Game of making a law in this country, but this law might have what it takes. It could go all the way.
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The American Data Privacy Protection Act’s Potential Flaws and Implications
Serious discussion of a federal privacy law has been going on since 2018. It’s now four years later and the US is the only major country in the world that doesn’t have federal data protection. For example, the UK has the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Russia, Japan, and Egypt all have their own versions of federal data protection in place. In the US we have always relied on state-level and local laws as opposed to the government putting something together for the entire nation. It’s significant that Congress is finally acting and is putting a law in motion that will protect US citizens and our information and precious data. It’s a little late as we have been privy to multitudes of data and information being stolen, but as the saying goes, better late than never.
Before you spend all that money on cameras and software, shouldn’t you run this idea by your Chief Downside Officer?
Bunnings and Kmart halt use of facial recognition technology in stores as privacy watchdog investigates
Kmart and Bunnings have paused the use of facial recognition technology in their stores, amid an investigation from Australia’s privacy regulator.
Consumer group Choice last month revealed Bunnings and Kmart were using the technology – which captures images of people’s faces from video cameras as a unique faceprint that is then stored and can be compared with other faceprints – in what the companies say is a move to protect customers and staff and reduce theft in select stores.
The two companies are now being investigated by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) over their use of the technology and whether it is consistent with privacy laws.
… Schneider accused Choice of “mischaracterising” the issue, stating that the technology was used only to detect when a person who has been banned from Bunnings stores enters a store.
… Schneider said regular customers did not have their images retained in the system. The technology, however, needs to scan the face of every customer entering the store to check against the database of banned customers.
The technology was already temporarily switched off in Bunnings stores as the company moves to a new system. [First system didn’t work? Bob]
… Kmart believes the use of the technology for “preventing criminal activity such as refund fraud” is appropriate and subject to strict controls, the spokesperson said.
Tools & Techniques. Surveillance starts in the family.
https://www.makeuseof.com/best-apps-tracking-your-new-teen-driver/
The 5 Best Apps for Tracking Your New Teen Driver
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