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Amazon’s Ring Neighbors App Exposed Users’ Precise Locations and Home Addresses

January 14, 2021 Syndicated 0

A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.

Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal

December 13, 2020 Syndicated 0

Hackers break into databases, steal their content, hold it for ransom for 9 days, and then sell to the highest bidder if the DB owner doesn’t want to pay the ransom demand.

New Lawsuit: Why Do Android Phones Mysteriously Exchange 260mb A Month With Google Via Cellular Data When They’re Not Even In Use?

November 18, 2020 Syndicated 0

Ad giant sued after mobile allowances eaten by hidden transfers.

Bot Generated Fake Nudes of Over 100,000 Women Without Their Knowledge, Says Report

October 23, 2020 Syndicated 0

Around 104,852 women had their photos uploaded to a bot, on the WhatsApp-like text messaging app Telegram, which were then used to generate computer-generated fake nudes of them without their knowledge or consent, researchers revealed on Tuesday.

Facebook Accused of Watching Instagram Users Through Cameras

September 19, 2020 Syndicated 0

Facebook Inc. is again being sued for allegedly spying on Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their mobile phone cameras.

‘Stalkerware’ Phone Spying Apps Have Escaped Google’s Ad Ban

August 12, 2020 Syndicated 0

Several companies offering phone-spying apps — known as “stalkerware” — are still advertising in Google search results, despite the search giant’s ban that took effect today, TechCrunch has found.

Police Use of Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights, UK Court Rules

August 11, 2020 Syndicated 0

Use of the tech needs to be narrower to conform to human rights law, court held.

Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads

August 5, 2020 Syndicated 0

Twitter’s use of the data for advertising purposes was discovered in 2019.

Texting App with Ties to Trump Campaign to Be Repurposed for Contact Tracing

July 15, 2020 Syndicated 0

A mobile app once used by the Trump campaign and other partisan interests has been rebranded and is now part of an “approved” national app database specifically designed for use by public health and safety agencies.

Why Did a Tech Executive Install 1,000 Security Cameras Around San Francisco?

July 12, 2020 Syndicated 0

Chris Larsen knows that a crypto mogul spending his own money for a city’s camera surveillance system might sound creepy. He’s here to explain why it’s not.

Police Are Buying Access To Hacked Website Data

July 9, 2020 Syndicated 0

The sale is “an end-run around the usual legal processes.”

US Senate Amends EARN IT Act — To Transfer the Fight Over Section 230 to the States to Let Them Restrict Encryption

July 6, 2020 Syndicated 0

The Senate Judiciary Committee passed the amended version on July 2.

IBM’s New Differential Privacy Library Works With Just a Single Line of Code

June 28, 2020 Syndicated 0

On Friday, IBM Research updated their open source “IBM Differential Privacy Library,” a suite of new lightweight tools offering “an array of functionality to extract insight and knowledge from data with robust privacy guarantees.”

Facial Recognition Bill Would Ban Use By Federal Law Enforcement (VIDEO)

June 26, 2020 Syndicated 0

The bill would also make federal funding for state and local law enforcement contingent on the enactment of similar bans.

Congress Has No Idea How Much Web Browsing Data the FBI Collects

May 22, 2020 Syndicated 0

The Patriot Act is about to be reauthorized, but we still don’t know basic facts about how our web browsing habits are being collected.

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The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

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FBI Asks Court for 66 Years to Release Seth Rich Laptop Data

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Judge Orders FBI to Produce Information From Seth Rich’s Laptop

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By Zachary Stieber The Epoch Times September 29, 2022 The FBI must produce information from Seth Rich’s laptop computer to a Texas man, a federal judge ruled on Sept. 29. The bureau improperly Read More…

Activism
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