Immersive Labs Researcher uses poor Fitbit privacy controls to produce a malicious spyware watch face!
As if it were not bad enough that a remote non-password protected kettle on your network could compromise your security, another unlikely potential threat has emerged, this time relating to watches. A ‘wide-open’ app-building API would let an attacker build a malicious application that could access Fitbit user data, & send it to any server. Proof-of-Concept Kev […]
UK ‘Mass Surveillance’ Regime Illegal – EU Court says!
Mass data retention & collection regimes used by member states must be subject to strict privacy safeguards as outlined under EU law, says a landmark legal judgement. The European Court of Justice (CJEU) has declared that legislation, such as the UK’s contentious Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016, cannot legally require a service provider to indiscriminately retain […]