Topic: spying

IKEA fined $1.2 million for spying on French employees

IKEA fined $1.2 million for spying on French employees

Caroline Pailliez, Reuters
Updated as of Jun 15 06:10 PM

A French court on Tuesday ordered IKEA to pay a 1 million euro ($1.21 million) fine for spying on its French staff, after the world's biggest furniture retailer was found guilty of improperly gathering and storing data on its employees.   Read more »

How Myanmar's military moved in on the telecoms sector to spy on citizens

How Myanmar's military moved in on the telecoms sector to spy on citizens

Fanny Potkin and Poppy McPherson, Reuters
Posted at May 19 08:13 AM

SINGAPORE/BANGKOK - In the months before the Myanmar military's Feb. 1 coup, the country's telecom and internet service providers were ordered to install intercept spyware that would allow the army to eavesdrop on the communications of citizens, sources with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters.   Read more »

Luxury jet makers battle over lucrative spy plane niche

Luxury jet makers battle over lucrative spy plane niche

Allison Lampert and Tim Hepher, Reuters
Posted at May 13 10:45 AM

From the South China Sea to the Middle East and the Baltic, governments are eyeing "special mission" business jets capable of looking or listening at potentially lower running costs than converted passenger or military planes. Read more »

NASA scientist pleads guilty to lying about China ties

NASA scientist pleads guilty to lying about China ties

Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
Posted at Jan 14 09:55 AM

NEW YORK - A senior NASA scientist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to lying about his ties to a program that encourages researchers to develop relationships with China in exchange for grants, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday. Read more »

China-backed DITO allowed to install cell sites inside military camps: Lorenzana

China-backed DITO allowed to install cell sites inside military camps: Lorenzana

RG Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 08 07:43 PM

MANILA — DITO Telecommunity, the country's third telecommunications player, has been given the go-signal to install cell sites inside the country's military bases, the country's defense chief confirmed Tuesday, despite concerns over its national security implications over Chinese involvement in the consortium.  Read more »

Walmart teaming with Microsoft in bid for TikTok

Walmart teaming with Microsoft in bid for TikTok

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 28 04:32 AM

The app has been at the center of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6 giving Americans 45 days to stop doing business with its Chinese parent company ByteDance.  Read more »

Trump to 'take a look' at pardoning Snowden

Trump to 'take a look' at pardoning Snowden

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 16 08:16 AM

President Donald Trump said Saturday he will "take a look" at pardoning Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who revealed in 2013 that the US government was spying on its citizens. Read more »

Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness

Massive spying on users of Google's Chrome shows new security weakness

Joseph Menn, Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 01:38 PM

A newly discovered spyware effort attacked users through 32 million downloads of extensions to Google's market-leading Chrome web browser, researchers at Awake Security told Reuters, highlighting the tech industry's failure to protect browsers as they are used more for email, payroll and other sensitive functions. Read more »

To track coronavirus, Israel moves to tap secret trove of cellphone data

To track coronavirus, Israel moves to tap secret trove of cellphone data

David M. Halbfinger, Isabel Kershner and Ronen Bergman, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 17 09:35 AM

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has authorized the country’s internal security agency to tap into a vast and previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to retrace the movements of people who have contracted the coronavirus and identify others who should be quarantined because their paths crossed. Read more »

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