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Privacy
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News Security & privacy
A US judge rules a police search of Flock licence-plate data was an unconstitutional search without a warrant
The Oklahoma judge called the camera networks a type of 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and threw out the evidence. She noted that nearly every court so far has ruled the other way.
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News Security & privacy
Apple fixed an exploited flaw in iPhones, iPads and Macs, and US agencies were given until 2 October to patch
Apple says it may have been used in an extremely sophisticated attack on specific people. The US cyber agency listed it as exploited a day after the fix.
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News Rules & courts
A New Mexico jury finds Facebook broke the state's consumer law 43,899,725 times over privacy statements
The judge will set the penalty, up to $5,000 per willful violation. The case grew out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and also covered claims about misinformation and hate speech.
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News Security & privacy
China names 30 apps over personal-data failures and gives them 15 working days to fix them
The internet regulator's tests found apps with no privacy rules, demands for unneeded permissions, and no working way to delete an account.
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News Rules & courts
China takes an AI app offline for not labelling AI-generated content, among 10 enforcement cases
The internet regulator also fined a hospital left with 700 unpatched vulnerabilities, and a property firm that collected over 5,000 customers' faces without consent.
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News Rules & courts
China spells out when firms can send personal data abroad under certification, and bans splitting transfers
Certification covers 100,000 to 1 million people's data a year; above that, a security assessment is required. Breaking transfers up to stay under the line is not allowed.