Warrantless searches of devices at US borders ruled unconstitutional

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:57:02 +0000

The border is NOT a constitution-free zone, according to the ruling: No more suspicionless fishing expeditions into travelers’ devices.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/eE3yPi0cZTE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple pulls Instagram-watching app from store

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 12:25:45 +0000

Apple has yanked an app from its iTunes App Store that allowed Instagram users to follow their friends’ activities on the social network.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/iD44YJoVJ-c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Microsoft says it will honor California’s new privacy law across US

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:31:59 +0000

Microsoft said CCPA is good news, given the failure of Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy protection law at the federal level.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WyNVOQw0oyw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apple to fix Siri bug that exposed parts of encrypted emails

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:02:06 +0000

Apple may care about your privacy but that doesn’t mean it gets it right all the time, especially when it comes to training its Siri AI assistant.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TwQGoS3CLXs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Leak of 4,000 Facebook documents heaps more trouble on internet giant

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:44:58 +0000

This week’s bold rebrand of Facebook to FACEBOOK can’t hide the growing sense that nobody is happy with the company right now.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/hXGqIRYXl7E” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook confesses 100 devs may have accessed leaked Groups data

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 12:48:49 +0000

It shut down that access in April 2018, or at least thought it did. At least 11 improperly accessed data in the last two months.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/R8nvSYc8u9M” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as proposed legislation called the ACCESS Act focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to easily pack up their data and take it to a competing service. But will this actually protect privacy?

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Mozilla says ISPs are lying to Congress about encrypted DNS

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:34:07 +0000

Mozilla on Friday posted a letter urging Congress to take the broadband industry’s lobbying against encrypted DNS within Firefox and Chrome with a grain of salt.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/L0V0e9wwPL4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Russia’s sovereign internet law comes into force

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:45:04 +0000

The new law compels the country’s ISPs to forward all data arriving and departing from their networks through special gateway servers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/twD2GGWkqxs” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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