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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

Krebs on Security

Meanwhile, Chirp’s parent company, RealPage, Inc. , Image: Camdenliving.com Also, the fobs pass the credentials to his front door over the air in plain text, meaning someone could clone the fob just by bumping against him with a smartphone app made to read and write NFC tags. is being sued by multiple U.S. out of a possible 10).

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Texas AG Sues Meta Over Collection and Use of Biometric Data

Hunton Privacy

On February 14, 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton brought suit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, over the company’s collection and use of biometric data. The suit focuses on Meta’s “tag suggestions” feature, which the company has since retired.

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Facebook to End Use of Its Facial Recognition System

Hunton Privacy

On November 2, 2021, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. The Facebook platform has long used facial recognition to provide recommendations for who to tag in photos and videos, and to alert users when a photo they were in is uploaded by another user. Users also will no longer see suggested tags or be able to turn on suggested tagging.

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DMARC Setup & Configuration: Step-By-Step Guide

eSecurity Planet

DMARC policies can be established separately for subdomains, but a subdomain without a DMARC policy will inherit the parent domain’s DMARC policy. To avoid issues, we need to understand the DMARC record tags in detail. Tags are separated by semicolons ( ; ) with no extra spaces.

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Social Media Platform Fined 100,000 USD by Washington State AG for COPPA Violations

Hunton Privacy

users, allowed children under the age of 13 (“U13”) to create accounts, collected U13 users’ personal information, and allowed third-party advertisers to collect data from U13 users, all without obtaining COPPA-compliant verifiable parental consent.

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Facebook is going to shut down Face Recognition system and data it collected

Security Affairs

Facebook is using the face recognition system to analyze photos taken of tagged users and associated users’ profile photos to automatically recognize them in photos and videos. Facebook announced it will stop using the Face Recognition system on its platform and will delete over 1 billion people’s facial recognition profiles.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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