December 17th, 2021 | General | No Comments Yet
Is Apple Hiding CSAM?
This week in Privacy News, Amazon has a new wall-mounted Alexa to spy on us more, clearview is ordered to delete all data in France now, and Apple removed all the CSAM references, but still plans on deploying the system. In security, we look at the Log4Shell vulnerability that is taking cybersecurity by storm.
Microsoft-iFixit Partnership
This week in Business News, H&R Block sues Block for copyright infringement, Meta goes after decade-old metaverse handle, and then they bring on sign language agents. Also, a self-driving car crashes in California and Microsoft partners with iFixit to make more repairable surface devices. We also take a trip to SillyVille
Privacy
https://www.theverge.com/22839220/amazon-echo-show-15-review-wall-mounted-alexa-tablet-kitchen-tv
https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/16/clearview-gdpr-breaches-france/
https://auto.hindustantimes.com/auto/cars/starting-a-toyota-car-remotely-with-key-fob-will-cost-the-owners-80-a-year-41639454190134.html
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/15/apple-nixes-csam-references-website/
Security
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/the-log4shell-zeroday-4-days-on-what-is-it-and-how-bad-is-it-really/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22832552/iphone-tesla-sms-log4shell-log4j-exploit-researchers-test
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/hackers-launch-over-840000-attacks-through-log4j-flaw/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22838737/kronos-ukg-ransomware-attack-payroll-tesla-whole-foods-cybercrime
Business
https://www.techspot.com/news/92669-tax-prep-firm-hr-block-sues-jack-dorsey.html
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/12/woman-lost-metaverse-instagram-handle-days-after-facebook-name-change/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/16/22839830/meta-sign-language-interpreters-portal-video-calls
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/14/22834496/pony-ai-av-test-permit-suspend-california-dmv-crash
https://www.techspot.com/news/92620-microsoft-partners-ifixit-make-surface-devices-easier-repair.html
Silly
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/13/22832356/lg-stanbyme-portable-tv-objet-announced-design-specs
https://news.nike.com/news/nike-acquires-rtfkt
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22837711/twitter-spaces-mcdonalds-roleplay
https://www.techspot.com/news/92652-gamer-goes-viral-reloading-household-objects-first-person.html