Dec 05
By Guillaume Celosia and Mathieu Cunche Discontinued Privacy: Personal Data Leaks in Apple Bluetooth-Low-Energy Continuity Protocols Summary We found that Apple devices are leaking sensitive information in the BLE wireless signals they emit. Those issues are associated with the Apple Continuity services and are affecting all Apple devices as well as devices compatible with the …
Sep 30
Interview de Daniel Le Metayer sur la transparence des algorithmes : Ces algorithmes dont on ne sait rien alors qu’ils régissent nos vies
Apr 01
Our report for the European Parliement on the “benefits and risks of Algorithmic Decision Systems (ADS)” is finally available online here : Understanding algorithmic decision-making: Opportunities and challenges
Aug 24
[EN:] Users carrying a mobile device with their Wi-Fi enabled are exposed to unsollicited Wi-Fi tracking in the physical world. Disabling Wi-Fi on one’s phone seems to be a solution to escape such tracking. Some Wi-Fi trackers even suggest users who don’t want to be track to turn off Wi-Fi. In fact, disabling Wi-Fi on …
Sep 14
Stop tracking our kids! Mattel et Hasbro sont épinglés aux Etats-Unis après le pistage d’enfants en ligne….car il est interdit de “tracker” et “profiler” les enfants aux Etats-Unis… ainsi qu’en Europe et en France (sans le consentement des parents) (… J’ai fait donc fait un test rapide sur certains des 10 sites pour enfants recommandés par le …
Jun 23
Back in 2014, in our ACM WiSec paper, entitled WifiLeaks: Underestimated Privacy Implications of the ACCESS_WIFI_STATE Android Permission, we reported that some mobile applications were abusing the ACCESS_WIFI_STATE permission of Android to collect private information on users, including their location. More particularly, we found that 41% apps (out of a total of 2700 most popular …
Jun 23
MyTrackingChoices is awarded the ‘Data Protection by Design’ award by Catalan Data Protection Authority. Congrats to the team. Please click here to see the announcement at the Catalan Data Protection web page. This has drawn attention of some Spanish and catalan media agencies: Lavanguardia Informativojuridico Agencia.abc.es Confilegal Reusdigital tarragonaradio
Oct 08
Vincent Roca talking about geolocation data on France Culture Radio: “Géolocalisation, combien se vendent nos trajets ?” Listen here.
Sep 29
Vincent Roca talking about smartphone and privacy in an Interstices Podcast. Listen here:
Sep 16
A research paper co-authored by Daniel Le Métayer (Privatics) has received the Best Paper Award at the Information Security Conference (ISC 2015). Reasoning about privacy properties of biometric system architectures in the presence of information leakage Julien Bringer, Hervé Chabanne, Danie Le Métayer and Roch Lescuyer http://isc2015.item.ntnu.no/program.php
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