Sensitive data of over 800K VW Group EV customers, including GPS coordinates, was exposed on an unprotected AWS database for months before being reported
The sensitive information of VW, Audi, Seat, and Skoda EV owners was left exposed on an unprotected and misconfigured cloud storage system for months
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
They're Blaming Amazon Instead Alison Durkee / Forbes : Parler Sues Amazon After Company Forces Social Media Site Offline Bernard Meyer / CyberNews : Data collection cheat sheet: how Parler, Twitter, ...
Amazon's Ring says that it receives some real-time 911 call data, including addresses, from police, which helps it curate crime news posts for its Neighbors app
here's what it's like Louise Matsakis / Wired : Cops Are Offering Ring Doorbell Cameras in Exchange for Info Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing : Amazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to rea...
Dalil, a caller ID Android app for Saudi and other Arabian users with 5M+ downloads, has exposed user data, including some GPS coordinates, for more than week
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @zdnet , @cipherstorm , @lukasstefanko , and @zackwhittaker Tweets: @zdnet : Saudi caller ID app leaves data of 5+ million users in unsecured MongoDB server https://...
Researcher finds what appears to be an unsecured facial recognition database of 2.5M+ Uyghur Muslims in China, with ID card data and near real-time GPS data
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @b_nishanov , @einsteinsattic , @mattburgess1 , and @alfredwkng . Thanks: @campuscodi Tweets: Bakhti Nishanov / @b_nishanov : If you continue to have doubts China is...
Researchers develop tool that can predict where Twitter users live with 92.5% accuracy using GPS data from geotagged tweets posted prior to April 2015
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Tweets: @issielapowsky , @issielapowsky , @wired , and @alexwhitcomb Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Twitter changed its policy in 2015 but all the GPS data from be...
Louisville, KY to hold four-year test of self-guided drones that, given GPS coordinates of shootings, take pictures and videos ahead of first responders
Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic : Tweets: @galsworthycjr Tweets: @galsworthycjr : Using tech to monitor crime-riddled neighborhoods is a two-edged sword. Yes, it could provide essential information to ...
Louisville, KY to hold four-year test of self-guided drones that, given GPS coordinates of shootings, take pictures and videos ahead of first responders
Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic : Tweets: @galsworthycjr Tweets: @galsworthycjr : Using tech to monitor crime-riddled neighborhoods is a two-edged sword. Yes, it could provide essential information to ...
Profile of Thasos, which leases trillions of anonymized GPS coordinates from ~1,000 smartphone apps and sells insights from the data to Wall Street traders
The phone in your pocket is dishing info on where you spend your time and, likely, money — When Tesla Inc. TSLA .62% Chief Executive Elon Musk …