TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS: Meta had until August 4th to prove that it had measures in place to comply with Norwegian data protection law. We don’t play with the protection of personal data in Norway, even if we are called Meta. A Norwegian regulator on Tuesday fined the U.S. tech giant for serving targeted ads by exploiting user data from its Facebook and Instagram […]
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BAD TACTIC: The Senate released this Thursday the conclusions of its commission of inquiry called “The TikTok Tactic: opacity, addiction and Chinese Shadows” “The TikTok Tactic: Opacity, Addiction and Chinese Shadows”. Here is the name of the Commission of inquiry meeting in the Senate this Thursday to make the conclusions around the interference of the Chinese […]
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PIRACY: Since 21st June, a hacker attack on the Rennes Hospital left it unable to access electronic messages and email We still don’t know what kind of data was stolen. But since Monday, the staff of the Rennes University Hospital can once again converse with the rest of the world. Victim of a cyberattack on June 21st, […]
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PIRACY:The University of Aix-Marseille, one of the most important in France, was the victim this Wednesday of a computer hack from abroad Aix- Marseille University, one of the largest in France, was the victim of a cyberattack on Wednesday morning. However, it would not have done much damage, a priori, thanks to a very rapid intervention, we learned from the […]
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Crytocurrency: The Hotbit exchange platform recently suffered a cyber attack. An update on the situation is in order. It has been a long time since the crypto sphere has had to suffer a hack from a centralized crypto exchange, with hackers clearly preferring to go after the smart contracts of DeFi projects lately. Alas! The Hotbit platform recently suffered a cyber […]
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CYBER ATTACK: LinkedIn confirmed the information but said the hackers had neither launched an attack nor exploited any security flaw in its servers. LinkedIn confirmed this Thursday on its site a major data leak. On Tuesday, the Cyber news site revealed that the personal data of 500 million LinkedIn profiles were being sold on the Internet by cybercriminals. The professional social network, however, claims […]
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INNOVATION: The Californian giant, Google has announced that it is working with other digital players to develop programs that will secure car keys and dematerialized identity documents. Google recently expressed its ambition to see its Pixel smartphones eventually replace various identity documents but also take the place of cash and car keys. To develop these projects, the Californian giant announced on […]
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PRIVATE LIFE: Secure messaging app, Signal, tops downloads on Apple Store and Google Play platforms in several countries The secure messaging application is booming! Since its competitor WhatsApp warned Thursday that it would share more data with its parent company Facebook, Signal has been at the top of downloads on the Apple Store and Google Play platforms in several countries. […]
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WhatsApp will require its users to share their data with entities of the Facebook group. Me Merav Griguer, lawyer and teacher at Sciences-Po and Assas, deciphers the main issues of this regulatory change for users Whatsapp messaging usage data will be collected and shared from February 8th by the parent company Facebook. This decision, announced Thursday […]
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The obligation to stop transfers of personal data between the European Union and the United States has been suspended for the moment but will be reviewed in November by the Irish justice After obtaining a temporary suspension of a court decision asking it to stop the flow of personal data of users from Europe to the United States, Facebook is going further. The social […]
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