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dr tech

FBI warns of look-alike election sites that could mess with voting - 1 views

mashable.com/...s-department-homeland-security

ITGS election sites voting fbi typosquatting politics and government

shared by dr tech on 22 Aug 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 22 Aug 20
     
    "Dubbed typosquatting, the idea is simple (if devious): A hacker registers a domain that is close enough to a real site, like yourbanknarne.com, and puts up a clone of yourbankname.com. The unsuspecting victim goes to the wrong site by mistake, and enters their personal banking information. In doing so, they have inadvertently handed the digital keys to their account to a hacker. "
melodyyy

Australia tests 'Orwellian' Covid app which uses facial recognition to enforce quaranti... - 2 views

www.buzz.ie/...s-orwellian-covid-app-24904570

ITGS facialrecognition privacy australia

shared by melodyyy on 05 Sep 21 - No Cached
  • Users will have 15 minutes, when the app pings them, to prove they are at their homes by showing the app their faces and giving it access to geo-location data. Should they fail to do so, the local police department will be sent to follow up in person.
  • “Location and biometric data is extremely valuable. Any government initiative that wishes to collect these types of personal information should have robust safeguards in place before it is rolled out, to ensure that information is not later used or disclosed for other purposes,”
  • According to its privacy statement, Home Quarantine SA will encrypt data “immediately upon submission” before sending it to an Australian server “under control of the Government of South Australia”.
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