Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 9/30/23
Cops dredge Google data to solve crimes, Huawei gives gifts to Greek officials, What happens to HaveIBeenPwned if Troy Hunt dies?, TikTok allows doxing of anonymous users, Beware sketchy HDMI adapters
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Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut
Bloomberg’s Julia Love and Davey Alba explore how police are tapping into the massive amount of location and search data collected by Google to solve crimes, including data on people who have no connections to the crimes, sometimes leading to false arrests.
Google maintains one of the world’s most comprehensive repositories of location information. Drawing from phones’ GPS coordinates, plus connections to Wi-Fi networks and cellular towers, it can often estimate a person’s whereabouts to within several feet. It gathers this information in part to sell advertis…
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