Security News > 2022 > October > Biden's Privacy Shield 2.0 order may not satisfy Europe

The new framework addresses concerns raised in a case decided in 2020 known as Schrems II, named after Max Schrems, the Austrian privacy activist who brought the case to the EU Court of Justice.

Schrems II struck Privacy Shield down, in part, because EU citizens had no rights to petition the US government if they felt their data had been improperly gathered.

That all said, Schrems says Biden's order is unlikely to satisfy EU law, and he ought to know - he's killed prior versions.

Facebook flags 402 fraudulent phone apps found on Android, iOS. When it comes to logging into apps with your Facebook credentials, beware.

The apps are "Disguised as photo editors, games, VPN services, business apps and other utilities," Facebook said, which present "Login with Facebook" prompts.

There's not much call to be curious when it comes to guessing where most of the malware lives - of the 402 apps Facebook listed in the report, 355 can be found on Android, and only 47 on iOS. To make matters worse for those in the Google ecosystem, the apps Facebook found were all over the map on Android, with entries running the gamut of categories mentioned above.

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