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Most of the TikTok challenges you hear about are fake. This, however, is seriously deadly. Automaker Hyundai this week agreed to pay around $200 million to customers whose vehicles were stolen after a viral TikTok challenge exposed a major security hole in several Hyundai vehicles and That.
The challenge began after user “Kia Boys” posted a video on TikTok showing how it was possible to hot-wire vulnerable vehicles with a USB cable. According to Engadget, at least 14 accidents and eight deaths have been linked to the challenge. Hyundai will pay affected customers up to $6,125 for stolen vehicles and up to $3,375 to cover the cost of damage caused by exploiters of the vulnerability. The company also has a “Anti-theft update” is available to affected vehicles. Check if your car is affected This.
The U.S. Court of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance yesterday published an opinion in April 2022 that found the FBI rampant abuse of the so-called Section 702 database, a trove of records relating to the United States. giant electronic communication device used by the bureau and the National Security Agency. The court found that the FBI wrongly queried the database, established under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, more than 287,000 times in 2020 and 2021. FBI search targets included 6 protesters who were arrested while protesting the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and about 19,000 American political donors to an unspecified US congressional campaign.
Section 702 gives the U.S. government the right to collect communications from targets abroad. Americans’ contact information can get caught up in the database when they contact someone outside of the US. An audit released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence late last year found some Similar cases of FBI misuse of Section 702 . databases to perform a search on US citizens, including US congressman Darin LaHood. Following both the ODNI audit and the publication of the court opinion this week, the FBI said the abuse was the result of a “misunderstanding” and stated that it had fixed the problem. Despite that, Section 702 will expire at the end of the year without reauthorization from Congress, which the FBI’s widespread and repeated abuses could be dangerous.
US Department of Justice on Tuesday announced charges against a former Apple engineer accused of stealing the company’s source code related to self-driving car technology. Weibao Wang allegedly stole “sensitive” documents during his final days at Apple in April 2018. Wang left Apple five months after signing a deal to work for a subsidiary based at Apple. in the United States by a company headquartered in China, as reported by Weibao Wang. Judicial. The Justice Department said that after US law enforcement searched his home in Mountain View, California, in June 2018, Wang, 35, fled to China. If convicted, Wang faces 10 years in prison plus a fine.
Everyone knows how much data can be collected about you whenever you are online. But of greater concern may be what someone can collect about you anytime you are anywhere. That’s a warning in a new research paper, have found that it is possible to collect “environmental DNA”—traces of genetic material floating in the air or liquid, also known as eDNA—that can be linked to medical details or one’s ancestors. Legal experts spoke to New York Times warns that if police or other government agencies start collecting eDNA, as animal scientists have been doing for a decade, it could create an abuse of privacy and rights. civil liberties on a large scale.
