TikTok Bans & Controversial Signal Pin - Surveillance Report 18

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00:50 Companies
07:15 Research
10:56 Politics
14:22 FOSS
15:00 Misfits


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Companies
TikTok
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/06/tiktok-us-ban-hong-kong-exit/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/technology/tiktok-amazon-security-risk.html
https://www.engadget.com/wells-fargo-tik-tok-ban-180217340.html


Signal
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pkyzek/signal-new-pin-feature-worries-cybersecurity-experts


Zoom
https://thehackernews.com/2020/07/zoom-windows-security.html
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zoom-fixes-zero-day-rce-bug-affecting-windows-7-more-updates-soon/


Brave
https://alternativeto.net/news/2020/7/bug-in-the-latest-version-of-brave-causes-top-sites-on-home-page-to-not-clear-with-history/


Firefox
https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-suspends-firefox-send-service-while-it-addresses-malware-abuse/
https://twitter.com/lbherrera_/status/1280617786088329220


Clearview
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-09/australia-u-k-open-joint-investigation-into-clearview-ai


Research
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/09/smartwatch-hack-spoofed-alerts/
https://levelup.gitconnected.com/no-cookies-no-problem-using-etags-for-user-tracking-3e745544176b
https://www.zdnet.com/article/more-pre-installed-malware-has-been-found-in-budget-us-smartphones/


Politics
China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/08/china-great-firewall-descends-hong-kong-internet-users
https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/06/facebook-whatsapp-hong-kong-data/


US
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3azvey/police-buying-hacked-data-spycloud
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/thousands-contracts-highlight-quiet-ties-between-big-tech-u-s-n1233171


France
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-to-introduce-controversial-age-verification-system-for-adult-pornography-websites/


FOSS
https://lwn.net/Articles/825602/


Misfits
https://www.reddit.com/r/MicroG/comments/hpxl41/ceasing_development_on_microg/
https://gist.github.com/mar-v-in/ad8d220ea4220638c0e5861cf062e844
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