Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 14:38:43 +0000
The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta’s business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 20 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI gets busted abusing a spy tool, an ex-Apple engineer is charged with corporate espionage, and collection of airborne DNA raises new privacy risks.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 18:05:38 +0000
The USPS carries out warrantless surveillance on thousands of parcels every year. Lawmakers want it to end—right now.
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Credit to Author: Amanda Hoover| Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 11:00:00 +0000
Telly TV tracks you and bombards you with ads on a dedicated second screen. It could help normalize smartphone-style surveillance in your living room.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 15:00:00 +0000
The Meta-owned app offers end-to-end encryption of texts, images, and more by default—but its settings aren’t as private as they could be.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000
A government effort to collect people’s internet records is moving beyond its test phase, but many details remain hidden from public view.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000
The FBI disables notorious Russia-linked malware, the EU edges toward a facial recognition ban, and security firm Dragos has an intrusion of its own.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 04:11:23 +0000
The social network’s new privacy feature is technically flawed, opt-in, and limited in its functionality. All this for just $8 a month.
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Credit to Author: Gideon Lichfield, Lauren Goode| Date: Wed, 10 May 2023 11:00:00 +0000
We talk to the Signal Foundation’s Meredith Whittaker about how the surveillance economy is newer than we all might realize—and what we can do to fight back.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000
OpenAI has new tools that give you more control over your information—although they may not go far enough.
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