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In March, the Italian government not-so-politely asked Clearview to leave, bestowing upon the toxic facial recognition tech company a $21 million fine as a parting gift. Citing the company's, um, clear violations of the GDPR, the government added to the tab Clearview has racked up in Europe, now surpassing $50 million. The company, of course,…

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For years, cars have collected massive amounts of data. And for years, this data has been extraordinarily leaky. Manufacturers don't like to discuss how much data gets phoned home from vehicle systems. They also don't like to discuss the attack vectors these systems create, either for malicious hackers or slightly less malicious law enforcement investigators.…

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8 posts published by Tim Cushing, Mike Masnick, Leigh Beadon, Gretchen Heckmann, and Karl Bode on December 5, 2022

Long before its current run of Very Bad News, Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group was already controversial. Investigations had shown its exploits were being used to target journalists and activists and its customer list included governments known mostly for their human rights abuses. Facebook and WhatsApp sued NSO in November 2019, alleging -- among other…