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Federal police broke Canada’s privacy laws by using a US company’s controversial facial recognition software in hundreds of searches, an independent parliamentary watchdog ruled Thursday.
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Italy has created a national cybersecurity agency following warnings by Prime Minister Mario Draghi that Europe needed to protect itself from Russian “interference.”
The new agency was approved in a cabinet meeting late on Thursday.
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The latest wave of ransomware attacks hitting the United States and globally portends a difficult battle against hackers, even as government and the private sector ramp up defenses.
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One drug trafficker texted another that he had a “job” and a proven way to get it done: two kilograms of cocaine from Bogota using the French embassy’s protected diplomatic pouch.
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Continue reading ‘What’s the Price Today?’: FBI Phone App Reaped Secrets of Global Drug Networks
Police arrested more than 800 people worldwide in a huge global sting involving encrypted phones that were secretly planted by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday.
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US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he is “looking” at possible retaliation after the White House linked Russia to a cyberattack against global meat processing giant JBS.
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A group of online privacy activists said Monday it is taking action against hundreds of websites over their use of pop-up banners asking users to consent to “cookies”, the files that track users’ activity.
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US troops charged with guarding nuclear weapons in Europe used popular education websites to create flash cards, exposing their exact locations and top-secret security protocols, according to the investigative site Bellingcat Friday.
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Facebook said Wednesday that it has disrupted more than 150 deceptive influence schemes since 2017, with Russia the biggest single source, as culprits strive to stay “under the radar.”
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Continue reading Facebook Adapts Defenses as Deception Campaigns Go Stealth
Privacy organisations on Thursday complained to regulators in five European countries over the practices of Clearview AI, a company that has built a powerful facial recognition database using images “scraped” from the web.
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Continue reading EU Privacy Groups Set Sights on Facial Recognition Firm