Cyber Security Center recommends against using Russian taxi app

  • 2018-08-02
  • BNS/TBT Staff
Lithuania's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has recommended against using Russia‘s Yandex.Taxi ride-sharing app, the Defense Ministry said on July 30. The need of the Russian-owned ride-sharing service provider's app for information from a user's mobile device "potentially creates conditions for unlawful collection and storage of personal data, causing concern regarding their security", the ministry said in a press release.  "The NCSC under the Ministry of National Defense is carrying out a comprehensive secur...
 
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