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Look Beyond TikTok: Massive Data Collection Is the Real Risk

Data Breach Today

All Social Media Apps Collect Information on a Scale That Facilitates Surveillance There's much national security ado about how much user data gets collected by the Chinese-owned, wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok.

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Meet Your Audio-Video eDiscovery Needs with OpenText eDiscovery solutions

OpenText Information Management

Are you seeing an uptick in the number of audio and video (“A/V”) files in your document collection sets? In the past, these files were just a small, mostly inconsequential part of the data collection, such as sales and marketing materials, holiday videos, and user internet downloads. You are not alone!

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Determining What Video Conference Participants Are Typing from Watching Shoulder Movements

Schneier on Security

He says the “text inference framework that uses the keystrokes detected from the video … predict[s] words that were most likely typed by the target user. We then comprehensively evaluate[d] both the keystroke/typing detection and text inference frameworks using data collected from a large number of participants.”

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Global Open Internet Under Chinese Threat, U.S. Lawmakers Hear

Data Breach Today

The specter of Chinese data collection on U.S. An executive for the short form video app made a rare appearance before a Senate committee. citizens hung over Capitol Hill in a pair of hearings as lawmakers asked whether an open internet can survive challenges such as Beijing hacking and TikTok.

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Facebook apologises for storing draft videos users thought they had deleted

The Guardian Data Protection

Facebook says ‘bug’ resulted in videos being kept, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg hits back at Apple chief Tim Cook’s ‘extremely glib’ attack Facebook continues to deal with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica files , announcing policy changes and bug fixes aimed at undoing some of the company’s more controversial data collection features.

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Canada ordered ByteDance to shut down TikTok operations in the country over security concerns

Security Affairs

over security concerns following a national security review under the Investment Canada Act Canada’s decision to require ByteDance to dissolve the operations of the popular video-sharing platform was guided by security and intelligence advice. The Canadian government ordered ByteDance to wind up TikTok Technology Canada, Inc.

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US sued TikTok and ByteDance for violating children’s privacy laws

Security Affairs

“According to the complaint, from 2019 to the present, TikTok knowingly permitted children to create regular TikTok accounts and to create, view, and share short-form videos and messages with adults and others on the regular TikTok platform. ” reads the press release published by DoJ.

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