The double-edged sword of privacy vs. antitrust
No. 15: Bringing you the news that matters in video privacy and security
A note from our Editor
Hi all
This week's articles focus on the continuing infiltration of global cybercrime and the growing paradox between privacy protection and antitrust regulation.
One of the biggest examples of recent cybercrime activity has been the double attack on Facebook and Linked-in: 533 million users' data from Facebook, followed by the scraping of 500 million LinkedIn profiles within the same week.
Many jobseekers are now turning to cyber crime on the dark web for a quick fix as they are strapped for cash as a result of the pandemic.
Google is facing a lawsuit against their strengthening of privacy protections; whilst Facebook is being accused of antitrust and user privacy violations. We have also seen the recent NHS COVID app update being blocked over data sharing privacy concerns that some argue, could be a useful factor for COVID tracing.
Privacy closes many doors to protect our data but the counter debate around security and data access/monitoring continues.
As always, please let me know if you have any feedback on this newsletter or want to see any other topics covered.
Emma
News
Can the Privacy and Antitrust paradox ever be settled?
Facebook is facing a multitude of antitrust lawsuits due to allegations of not protecting user privacy. Meanwhile, Google has been accused of exclusionary conduct, regarding their plan to strip third-party cookies in Chrome. Both are being sued: one for weakening privacy protections, and the other strengthening them. Can antitrust and privacy ever coexist?
500million LinkedIn users' data scraped and leaked
After Facebook's recent exposure of 533 million users' data leaked online, LinkedIn have confirmed a similar breach. An individual is selling the data on a hacker forum, claiming it was scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles, and includes user IDs, user names, professional titles, email addresses and more.
NHS COVID app update blocked by Apple and Google over privacy concerns
The NHS COVID-19 Track and trace app is due for an update; however, Google and Apple have blocked it over privacy violations. On the 8th April, it was supposed to update to include further geographical measures to help tracking, by asking users to upload venue history if they test positive, but this went against explicit privacy rules.
Data centres are the future ecosystem of smart cities
Future smart cities need to consider data centres as the 'social and economic lifeblood for the surrounding population', as they provide greener, smarter and a more secure solution that allows for edge computing platforms to enable more seamless integrations such as transport, 5G and satellites.
Jobseekers are turning to cybercrime: why?
As the rate of unemployment has gone up as a result of the pandemic, many have been increasingly turning to cyber crime to make money fast. From asking for a one time $200,000 cyber crime contract to paid monthly roles, it seems that many may not have a choice to try cyber crime to make some money.
AI Snippet of the Week
Understanding cellular disease mechanisms through Machine Learning
Caroline Uhler who has tenure in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, is conducting research that blends machine learning and biological statistics so as to better understand gene regulation and disease.
Policy Updates
Can Data Protection Regulation be globally unified?
Global businesses can be held to varying standards when suffering a data breach or losing user data, due to the differing regulations between many countries. How can organisations deal with all these standards, or is there a way for data protection regulations across the world to be unified?
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