Mathieu Cunche

@cunchem.bsky.social

Honest-but-Curious Researcher. Prof. at INSA-Lyon CITI / Inria, France. Privacy, Security, Computer Networks, Wireless, Mobile, IoT.

New: it appears ICE is buying immigrants' tax identifiers through a data broker. ICE has repeatedly tried to get this sort of data from the IRS. Judges have repeatedly blocked that move, calling it illegal. Now it looks like ICE is just buying related data instead www.404media.co/ice-appears-...

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court or...

404media.co

De plus en plus d'entreprises vendent aux forces de l’ordre la possibilité de pister des utilisateurs de smartphones grâce à leurs données publicitaires. « Le Monde » a assisté à des présentations confidentielles de certains de ces outils. Enquête sur l'Adint, nouvelle frontière de la surveillance :

Comment l’industrie de la publicité en ligne alimente en secret la surveillance d’Etat

Des entreprises proposent aux forces de l’ordre de pister des utilisateurs de smartphones grâce à leurs données publicitaires. « Le Monde » a assisté à des présentations confidentielles de ces nouveau...

lemonde.fr

After an embargo of 8 months, we are glad to finally share our USENIX Security '25 paper! We found more than 4 MILLION vulnerable tunneling servers by scanning the Internet. These vulnerable servers can be abused as proxies to launch DDoS attacks and possibly to access internal networks.

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After I reported on automakers selling info about people’s driving to the insurance industry, G.M. stopped providing the data to risk profiling companies. But I heard it was still selling data about how & where people drive, anonymized. This is the major use case: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/t...

How Your Car Might Be Making Roads Safer

Researchers say data from long-haul trucks, and cars made by General Motors, is critical for addressing traffic congestion and road safety. Data privacy experts have their concerns.

nytimes.com

Person makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Creator sticks the cease and desist to a pole and holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...

Traffic Camera 'Selfie' Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam

Traffic Cam Photobooth lets you take a capture from NYC surveillance camera. The city's Department of Transportation does not like that.

404media.co

Advertisements inserted among emails: ORANGE fined €50 million www.cnil.fr/en/advertise... Important to reflect that the fines relate to non-compliance with the EU ePrivacy Directive (ePD) ... and that in France, the ePD is incorporated into the data protection law and so GDPR level fines

Advertisements inserted among emails: ORANGE fined €50 million

Background ORANGE provides its customers with an electronic messaging service ("Mail Orange"). Following several investigations, the CNIL found that the company was displaying advertisements in the fo...

cnil.fr

Aujourd'hui était la date limite du rendu du dossier CNU pour qualification MCF 2024. Le CNU 27 (informatique) demande en particulier un rapport d'activités (~ CV long). J'ai rendu le mien public : vepain.gitlab.io/posts/2024-1... Si ça intéresse, je peux aussi donner le LaTeX. #ESR

Dossier de qualification CNU section 27

Campagne de qualification pour MCF 2024-2025 par le CNU section 27 (informatique) : https://cnu27.ls2n.fr/qualification/

vepain.gitlab.io

The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]

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