Collaborate Disseminate
The speaker of the Catalan regional parliament demanded Tuesday that the Spanish government launch an official investigation into reports that his cellphone was the target of espionage, allegedly by Spanish security services.
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Roughly five hours after an internal email went out Friday to Amazon employees telling them to delete the popular video app TikTok from their phones, the online retailing giant appeared to backtrack, calling the ban a mistake.
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Continue reading Amazon Says Email to Employees Banning TikTok Was a Mistake
Privacy watchdogs in Britain and Australia have opened a joint investigation into facial recognition company Clearview AI over its use of personal data “scraped” off social media platforms and other websites.
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Continue reading UK, Australia Investigate Clearview Facial Recognition Firm
At the behest of the U.S. government, German authorities have seized a computer server that hosted a huge cache of files from scores of U.S. federal, state and local law enforcement agencies obtained in a Houston data breach last month.
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Continue reading Germany Seizes Server Hosting Pilfered U.S. Police Files
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a challenge by internet service providers and upheld Maine’s “opt-in” web privacy law, one of the strictest in the nation.
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Continue reading Federal Judge Upholds Maine’s Strict Internet Privacy Law
Two weeks after a cyber-security firm released the identity of an alleged hacker from Kazakhstan, federal authorities in Seattle on Tuesday unsealed a 2018 indictment charging the man with an array of computer crimes.
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Continue reading Feds Unseal 2018 Indictment Charging Kazakh Man in Hacks
Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram will deny law enforcement requests for user data in Hong Kong as they assess the impact of a new national security law enacted last week.
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Continue reading Facebook, Others, Block Govt Requests on Hong Kong User Data
A Nigerian national appeared in federal court in Chicago Friday accused of orchestrating an international cyber fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say defrauded U.S. businesses in six states out of tens of millions of dollars.
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Continue reading Nigerian Man Charged With Cyber Fraud Against US Companies
Back in March as the coronavirus pandemic gathered steam in the U.S., a largely unheralded video-conferencing service suddenly found itself in the spotlight.
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Continue reading Zoom Got Big Fast. Then Videobombers Made It Rework Security
China on Wednesday demanded Washington stop “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S. regulators declared telecom equipment suppliers Huawei and ZTE to be national security threats.
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Continue reading China: US ‘Oppressing Chinese Companies’ in New Huawei Move