NOYB files complaints against AliExpress, Shein, TikTok, Xiaomi, Temu, and WeChat over claims they are unlawfully sending EU user data to China
TikTok, Shein, Xiaomi (1810.HK) and three other Chinese companies were named in a privacy complaint filed on Thursday by Austrian advocacy group Noyb …
NOYB files a privacy complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority, accusing it of tracking Firefox users on websites without consent
Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority …
A look at Operation Intering, an FBI-led sabotage campaign in the 1980s to secretly ship millions worth of faulty chips to the Soviet Bloc
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The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms
Amid a flurry of tech news yesterday … Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : US government sues Adobe for ‘deceptive’ business tactics and hiding steep subscription cancellation charges to ‘trap’ its custo...
Western intelligence officials say that former Wirecard COO Jan Marsalek, who fled to Moscow after nearly $2B went missing, was likely a Russian agent for years
Shortly afterwards, its chief operating officer Jan Marsalek boarded a private jet out of Austria, landed in Belarus, took a car to Moscow where he now he got a Russian passport under a fake name. … X...
Singapore-based Reebelo, a marketplace for pre-owned phones, laptops, tablets, and more, raised a $29M Series A extension, bringing its Series A total to ~$50M
Reebelo is a great example of how entrepreneurship has become distributed and gobal: Austrian 🇦🇹 … Jussi Salovaara : Another key milestone unlocked for Reebelo! Congrats Philip Franta, Rastouil Fabie...
Austrian police say a hacker, arrested in November, tried to sell the name, gender, address, and DOB of “presumably every citizen” in Austria, or 9.1M people
A Dutch hacker arrested in November obtained and offered for sale the full name, address and date of birth …
The Irish DPC fines Meta €390M over GDPR breaches related to its ad and data handling practices, giving the company three months to comply; Meta plans to appeal
quickly — find a new legal basis for its sprawling targeted advertising empire. 🧵 https://pro.politico.eu/... @maxschrems : So, @noybeu (that the @DPCIreland calls “an [unspecified] Austrian complaina...
Two Austrian entrepreneurs acquire the assets of LimeWire, the music sharing service shuttered in 2010, and plan to relaunch it as a music-focused NFT service
A pair of serial entrepreneurs in Austria has bought the rights to defunct music platform LimeWire with plans to revamp its image …
Investigation suggests that Austrian programmer Toby Hoenisch, who founded TenX, was likely behind a 2016 hack of The DAO, diverting 3.6M ETH, now worth $11B
Who hacked The DAO in 2016, diverting 3.6 million ether? We identify the apparent hacker — he denies it …