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Digital surveillance and smartphone technology may prove helpful in containing the coronavirus pandemic — but some activists fear this could mean lasting harm to privacy and digital rights.
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Continue reading Privacy Rights May Become Next Victim of Killer Pandemic
The home confinement of hundreds of millions of people worldwide to halt coronavirus contagion has presented intelligence services with a challenge: monitoring an explosion in internet traffic, above board and not, even as their own capacity is reduced… Continue reading Coronavirus Confinement Challenges Intelligence Services
It may look like an email from a supervisor with an attachment on the new “work from home policy.” But it could be a cleverly designed scheme to hack into your network.
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Continue reading The Other Virus Threat: Surge in COVID-Themed Cyberattacks
Facebook and other tech companies need to be regulated like the tobacco industry, warned Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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Continue reading Tech Must Be Treated Like Tobacco, Says Facebook Whistleblower
The US needs a top-level cybersecurity coordinator and a better strategy of “deterrence” to protect against hackers and other cyber threats, a congressionally mandated commission said Wednesday.
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Continue reading US Needs Top Cyber Coordinator, Better Hacker ‘Deterrence’: Panel
Match Group, the parent company of dating apps such as Tinder, on Tuesday publicly endorsed a US bill others in the tech industry fear will erode online privacy and speech in the name of fighting child abuse.
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Continue reading Dating App Maker Match Group Backs US Bill Seen as Privacy Threat
Australia’s privacy watchdog announced legal action against Facebook Monday for alleged “systematic failures” exposing more than 300,000 Australians to a data breach by Cambridge Analytica.
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Continue reading Aussie Watchdog Sues Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica Breach
US lawmakers proposed legislation Thursday that could see internet companies held legally responsible for content on their platforms if they don’t do enough to police child pornography.
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Continue reading US Lawmakers Propose Internet Controls to Fight Child Porn
US officials on Wednesday stepped up warnings about the potential security risks from the fast-growing, Chinese-owned TikTok as a lawmaker unveiled legislation to ban the social media app from government devices.
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Continue reading US Lawmakers Told of Security Risks From China-owned TikTok
US regulators moved to impose fines Friday against the nation’s four major wireless carriers for selling location data of customers without their consent.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed fining T-Mobile more than $91 million; AT&T so… Continue reading Regulators Move to Fine Telecoms for Selling Location Data