Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:20:53 +0000
Competing bills moving through the House of Representatives both reauthorize Section 702 surveillance—but they pave very different paths forward for Americans’ privacy and civil liberties.
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Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 15:28:02 +0000
With its war against Russia raging on, Ukraine has begun raising funds to rebuild homes and structures one by one using its own crowdfunding platform.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:49:23 +0000
Videos featuring Elijah Wood, Mike Tyson, and Priscilla Presley have been edited to push anti-Ukraine disinformation, according to Microsoft researchers.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:38:03 +0000
Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right.
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It’s been another bad week in security.
Not only do we learn that so-called “friendly” governments are quietly requesting surveillance data concerning push notifications, but Apple tells us more than 2.6 billion personal records have already been compromised by data breaches in the past two years.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:56:10 +0000
Binance’s settlement requires it to offer years of transaction data to US regulators and cops, exposing the company—and its customers—to a “24/7, 365-days-a-year financial colonoscopy.”
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:08:45 +0000
Governments can access records related to push notifications from mobile apps by requesting that data from Apple and Google, according to details in court records and a US senator.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 23:54:14 +0000
23andMe has provided more information about the scope and scale of its recent breach, but with these details come more unanswered questions.
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Microsoft plans to offer extended security updates to both business and individual Windows 10 users for the first time when the operating system reaches end-of-life in late 2025.
Microsoft encouraged Windows 10 customers to begin plans to migrate to the latest version of the operating system — Windows 11 — last April with the announcement that Windows 10 22H2 would be the final version.
Windows 10 is still the most widely used version of the OS, accounting for 64% of US desktop market share, according to StatCounter’s figures; that compared to 30% for Windows 11.
