New Zealand's central bank said on Monday a cyberattack that breached its data systems also affected other users of a third-party application and that it was not a specific target of the hack.
The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it had launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook Inc days after the messaging app asked users to agree to let Facebook collect user data such as phone numbers and locations.
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Dec 16 (Reuters) - Australia’s competition regulator said on Wednesday it has initiated court proceedings against Facebook Inc for alleged misleading conduct by the social media giant in promoting its Onavo Protect mobile app to consumers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said Onavo, Facebook’s now-discontinued mobile analytic firm, told customers it would keep their data private but it had instead been used by Facebook for research and identifying future acquisition targets. (Reporting by Nikhil Kurian Nainan in Bengaluru Editing by Chris Reese)
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FILE PHOTO: A test drone operator takes part in a demonstration for Reuters of Israel s NSO Group s product, Eclipse, a system that commandeers and force-lands intruding drones, at Bloomfield Stadium, in Tel Aviv, Israel June 8, 2020. REUTERS/Ammar Awad/File Photo
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli cyber surveillance firm NSO Group is considering an initial public offering (IPO), most likely in Tel Aviv, Israeli media reported, citing sources close to the matter.
The Globes financial daily said that as part of the potential IPO process, NSO chairman Asher Levy and chief financial officer Doron Arazi met earlier this week with Itai Ben-Zeev, the chief executive of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was denied bail on Wednesday by a British judge who said he might flee justice while the United States tries again to secure his extradition, a decade after he enraged Washington by publishing troves of secret documents.