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With Apple's iCloud, iPhones could be viewed, Google and Facebook could query the exact locations of suspects, reports a monitoring company. In a non-public presentation, a representative of the monitoring firm Penlink praised Apple's iCloud as "phenomenal". While Apple doesn't unlock iPhones at the request of law enforcement, their backups in iCloud are issued after a search warrant. First reported the magazine Forbes. In a presentation at the National Sheriffs Association's winter conference, Scott Tuma of Penlink described how the company requests and evaluates data from companies for law enforcement. "If you've done something bad," Tuma said, "I bet you can find it in this backup." Whatsapp messages could also be read via the backups. Unless they are encrypted. There is a simple reason why Tuma is so enthusiastic about iCloud: Apple has failed to encrypt it so that only the users themselves can access their data and bac...

First of all, a ruling was issued in Austria in December according to which the use of Google Analytics is not compatible with EU law.  A little later, the French data protection authority CNIL instructs a French website manager to comply with the GDPR and, if necessary, to stop using this service under the current conditions. And the Dutch supervisory authority AP warns: "Attention: The use of Google Analytics could soon be banned." If this actually happens, concepts must be rethought and marketing strategies rewritten. This ruling could not only have set a ball rolling, but could also put digital marketing as a whole under pressure: In January, a decision by the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPO) became public. Among other things, it states: "In the opinion of the data protection authority, the tool Google Analytics (at least in the version of 14 August 2020) can therefore not be used in accordance with the requirements of Chapter V GDPR." Data p...

  What would you think of a company that took in a lot more money than it spent but reported only losses? With most kinds of companies, it would seem scandalous. In the case of Hollywood production companies, though, it wouldn’t be unusual at all. It’s commonly assumed that big names in Hollywood mean big salaries. And if you’ve ever stuck around through the credits at the end of a movie, you know there are a lot of people to pay when it comes to studio expenses.  However, what you might not know is how established film industry money math can bloat expenses to make gains look like losses. It doesn’t always happen with a production, but it happens enough to make “Hollywood accounting” an actual term for an unreal financial practice with a not-so-praiseworthy purpose. How and Why Some Studios Let Blockbusters Bomb, Budgetwise Whatever the intention one may pin on the execs and number crunchers involved, it’s no secret that some obviously profitable movies have ended up looking ...

The Russian attack on Ukraine is also having an impact on social media. The US media groups Twitter and Facebook are responding to Moscow's aggression by restricting their services. The Facebook group Meta and the short message service Twitter are reacting to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine with restrictions on their social networks. They are in the process of preventing Russian state media from placing ads on the social network worldwide or earning money there, Facebook security chief Nathaniel Gleicher announced on Twitter. Our top priority is keeping people on Twitter safe. We’re actively monitoring for risks associated with the conflict in Ukraine, including identifying and disrupting attempts to amplify false and misleading information. Here are the steps we’ve taken: — Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) February 25, 2022 Twitter, on the other hand, is blocking ads in Russia and Ukraine until further notice. This is to ensure that important information on pub...

With her company, Fabiola Munguia supports companies in the fight against cyber attacks. In doing so, it also relies on the help of hackers. Because many companies only become particularly painfully aware of the topic of IT security in a certain phase. Fabiola Munguia has a lot to do. She receives masses of customer inquiries these days, says the founder. "It's a bit like having a doctor," she says. "Few patients come for a prophylactic health check. Most of them come when something hurts them acutely." Cyber attacks cause their customers pain. The intrusion of criminals into company computer systems can cause enormous financial damage to companies. In the recently published "Risk Barometer" by Allianz's industrial insurer AGCS, cybercrime ranks first among the risks for companies and thus before natural disasters and pandemics. In 2020, the US company Cybersecurity Ventures estimated the sum of corporate damages caused by criminal ha...

The anarchist and net thought leader wants to create an alternative to VPNs and the Tor browser against ubiquitous surveillance. To do this, he wants to pay people with special cryptocurrency. The only thing that is certain is that the Internet is insecure. Two of the most well-known techniques that supposedly protect against surveillance while surfing are vulnerable. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) can be infiltrated by spies. Users have no choice but to blindly trust the company behind the VPN.  The Company may collect and share information about who visits which website and when. And the basically well-secured Tor browser is loved by dissidents, hackers – and criminals. However, he too can be infiltrated; at least by secret services with appropriate technical means. So it doesn't look good for people's privacy. But Harry Halpin says he can solve this problem. And if the entrepreneur, computer scientist and philosopher Harry Halpin tackles a problem, then it becom...