- The CDC is collecting data on citizens’ locations and movements from cell phones, social media, and airline passenger manifests — and doing so without judicial oversight. (Daily Beast; Surveillance Technology Oversight Project)
- Zoom for Windows software has a vulnerability that allows attackers to steal users’ operating system credentials. (Ars Technica)
- Zoom uses a preinstallation script in order to install itself without the user’s final consent. Instead, a highly misleading prompt is used to gain root privileges. (Twitter)
- Cloudflare launched 1.1.1.1 for Families, a secure, fast, privacy-first DNS resolver that can block “adult” content (and malware.) However, there are concerns as to how the block-list was created and what is on this list. (Cloudflare)
- As mass surveillance proliferates in cities, some privacy activists are developing “stealth streetwear,” clothes and wearable items that help protects wearers’ anonymity. (New Yorker)
(Compiled by Student Fellow Ginny Kozemczak)