{"id":15013,"date":"2021-02-12T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=15013"},"modified":"2024-01-25T01:12:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T09:12:19","slug":"privacy-news-online-weekly-review-february-12-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/privacy-news-online-weekly-review-february-12-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: February 12, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Privacy News Online: Google identifies protesters, Clearview is illegal in CA &amp; Plex amplifies DDOS\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WWiMwE_7ao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding: 10px; margin: 0px 0 30px 0; background: #118011; color: #ffffff; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 400;\">Featured: Privacy News Online \u2013 Week of February 12th, 2021<\/h2>\n<h3>Police served warrant on Google to identify George Floyd protestors<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Police-served-warrant-on-Google-to-identify-George-Floyd-protestors-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Police served warrant on Google to identify George Floyd protestors\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Police-served-warrant-on-Google-to-identify-George-Floyd-protestors-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Police-served-warrant-on-Google-to-identify-George-Floyd-protestors-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Police-served-warrant-on-Google-to-identify-George-Floyd-protestors-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Police-served-warrant-on-Google-to-identify-George-Floyd-protestors.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>Police used a type of warrant known as a geofence warrant to ask Google for information on all accounts that were close to a particular store in a twenty minute window around when the store was looted. Police already have video evidence of what happened, but were trying to identify a key suspect who has yet to be charged and is referred to as simply: Umbrella man. In doing so, they now have the identities of hundreds of George Floyd protestors that were doing nothing but peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/police-used-geofence-warrant-to-make-google-to-identify-george-floyd-protestors\/\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/police-used-geofence-warrant-to-make-google-to-identify-george-floyd-protestors\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Users have privacy concerns about Microsoft\u2019s inclusion in Raspberry Pi OS<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Users-have-privacy-concerns-about-Microsofts-inclusion-in-Raspberry-Pi-OS-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"Users have privacy concerns about Microsoft's inclusion in Raspberry Pi OS\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Users-have-privacy-concerns-about-Microsofts-inclusion-in-Raspberry-Pi-OS-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Users-have-privacy-concerns-about-Microsofts-inclusion-in-Raspberry-Pi-OS-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Users-have-privacy-concerns-about-Microsofts-inclusion-in-Raspberry-Pi-OS-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Users-have-privacy-concerns-about-Microsofts-inclusion-in-Raspberry-Pi-OS.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>The official open source operating system for Raspberry Pi devices now includes the Microsoft VSCode repository by default. While this move does increase usability and future integration prospects for Pi devices, it also means that Microsoft now gets information from users of the operating system. Raspberry Pi users that don\u2019t want their devices phoning home to Microsoft should consider downloading another flavor of Linux.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/users-have-privacy-concerns-about-microsofts-inclusion-in-raspberry-pi-os\/\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/users-have-privacy-concerns-about-microsofts-inclusion-in-raspberry-pi-os\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Time to get rid of pervasive online ad tracking once and for all: the alternative is simple, effective, and fully respects privacy<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/optical-illusion-on-a-building-in-marseille-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/optical-illusion-on-a-building-in-marseille-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/optical-illusion-on-a-building-in-marseille-1024x777.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/optical-illusion-on-a-building-in-marseille-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/optical-illusion-on-a-building-in-marseille-1536x1165.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/optical-illusion-on-a-building-in-marseille-2048x1553.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/optical-illusion-on-a-building-in-marseille-1200x910.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Between iOS 14\u2019s app tracking transparency updates and Google\u2019s moves against third party cookies, the old way of ad tracking might finally be taking a back seat to more privacy conscious approaches. One such approach proposed by Google suggests tracking by cohorts instead of individually, but even that may still be too revealing. The real option that respects privacy has been here all along: contextual advertising.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/time-to-get-rid-of-pervasive-online-ad-tracking-once-and-for-all-the-alternative-is-simple-effective-and-fully-respects-privacy\/\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/time-to-get-rid-of-pervasive-online-ad-tracking-once-and-for-all-the-alternative-is-simple-effective-and-fully-respects-privacy\/<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/pages\/privacy-news-online\/PNO29\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15135 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BlogAd.jpg\" alt=\"Buy Private Internet Access VPN\" width=\"900\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BlogAd.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BlogAd-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/BlogAd-768x171.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding: 10px; margin: 30px 0; background: #118011; color: #ffffff; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 400;\">More Privacy News This Week:<\/h2>\n<h3>South Africa\u2019s highest court bans bulk internet surveillance<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/South-Africas-highest-court-bans-bulk-internet-surveillance-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"South Africa's highest court bans bulk internet surveillance\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/South-Africas-highest-court-bans-bulk-internet-surveillance-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/South-Africas-highest-court-bans-bulk-internet-surveillance-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/South-Africas-highest-court-bans-bulk-internet-surveillance-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/South-Africas-highest-court-bans-bulk-internet-surveillance.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>South Africa first ruled to ban internet mass surveillance in 2019 but the decision was appealed by the Minister of State Security. This most recent court decision handed down by the South African Constitutional Court means that the ruling is final. The government now has three years to come up with a better communications interception law that doesn\u2019t violate South Africans\u2019 constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/south-africas-highest-court-bans-bulk-internet-surveillance\/\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/south-africas-highest-court-bans-bulk-internet-surveillance\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Clearview AI ruled \u2018illegal\u2019 by Canadian privacy authorities<\/h3>\n<p>The facial recognition company preferred by law enforcement in the United States that brags about having over 3 billion facial recognition scans in their database to check against is no longer welcome in the Great White North. Canada\u2019s Office of the Privacy Commissioner has ruled that Clearview AI\u2019s use of our pictures is so inappropriate that even giving consent wouldn\u2019t make it any better. Clearview AI\u2019s response is that Canada\u2019s laws don\u2019t apply to them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/02\/03\/clearview-ai-ruled-illegal-by-canadian-privacy-authorities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/02\/03\/clearview-ai-ruled-illegal-by-canadian-privacy-authorities\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Plex media server, a popular app for streaming video libraries, is being abused to amplify distributed denial of service attacks<\/h3>\n<p>Approximately 27,000 Plex media servers are exposed to the internet, many of which can be exploited and used in DDOS attacks. To mitigate the vulnerability, users should update Plex media server to the latest version and consider disabling UPNP on their routers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/plex-media-servers-are-being-abused-for-ddos-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/plex-media-servers-are-being-abused-for-ddos-attacks\/<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>A fake version of WhatsApp for iOS has been observed in the wild<\/h3>\n<p>Deceptive web pages trick victims into installing a profile that allows an attacker to deploy malicious apps to their iPhone. iPhone users can stay safe by never installing profiles offered by websites and only installing apps downloaded from the app store.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/apps\/news\/whatsapp-iphone-fake-version-hack-users-cy4gate-italian-spyware-motherboard-citizen-lab-report-2362841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/apps\/news\/whatsapp-iphone-fake-version-hack-users-cy4gate-italian-spyware-motherboard-citizen-lab-report-2362841<\/a><\/div>\n<h3>Brought to you by Private Internet Access<\/h3>\n<p>Privacy News Online is brought to you by Private Internet Access, the world\u2019s most trusted VPN service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/buy-vpn-online\">Sign up now and get 3 years for just $79!!!<\/a><\/div>\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 25px;\">Special thanks to Intego<\/h4>\n<p>Thank you to Josh Long, our cybersecurity correspondent from Intego, makers of award-winning security software.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intego.com\/lp\/buynow?channel=privacynews\">Save on Intego\u2019s world-class protection software for Mac\/Windows<\/a><\/div>\n<style>.wp-post-image{display:none}<\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured: Privacy News Online \u2013 Week of 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