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In the news...
- TikTok Could Get a 270 Day Extension to Make a Deal [theverge.com]
Social media giant "TikTok’s luck might not run out just yet, if a new bill extending its January 19th deadline for a sale is approved by Congress." This week, announced "that he plans to introduce the Extend the TikTok Deadline Act to give the company an extra 270 days to divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance to avoid facing a ban in the US."
Keep up with all news related to the potential ban here.
- Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance [wired.com]
Something's happening behind the scenes, "whenever you board a flight to the United States, much of Europe, and increasingly anywhere in the world—the exchange of detailed personal data about each traveler between airlines and governments. The data, which is retained about you for years, is increasingly valuable for technology companies that are experimenting with using algorithms that could decide who is allowed to cross international borders." And it's not just airlines ... "despite the risks posed by algorithm-driven profiling, the security sector is moving quickly to develop and install similar systems for every mode of transport: cars, buses, trains, and ships."
- A Breach of Gravy Analytics' Huge Trove of Location Data Threatens the Privacy of Millions [techcrunch.com]
"A hack and data breach at location data broker Gravy Analytics is threatening the privacy of millions of people around the world whose smartphone apps unwittingly revealed their location data collected by the data giant," says Zack Whittaker.
"The full scale of the data breach isn’t yet known, but the alleged hacker has already published a large sample of location data from top consumer phone apps — including fitness and health, dating, and transit apps, as well as popular games. The data represents tens of millions of location data points of where people have been, live, work, and travel between."
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