Collaborate Disseminate
The reported scope of the Salt Typhoon hacks has expanded in recent days and weeks, from the incoming president to top U.S. officials.
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The sweeping bill had garnered opposition from GOP leadership and others.
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Business groups and civil rights activists have raised objections to the latest version of the legislation, due for committee consideration Thursday.
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Even as the legislation advanced through a key subcommittee, members from both parties raised concerns with the measure, indicating that it faces an uncertain road toward passage and may still be significantly altered.
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House lawmakers argue that growing consolidation in the health care sector has created vulnerabilities to cyberattacks.
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A measure to address the sale of Americans’ data doesn’t go far enough to rein in the data broker industry, advocates argue.
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Federal privacy legislation fails to gain momentum in the Senate.
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The latest version of the legislation still leaves loopholes for abuses of data including reproductive health data.
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T-Mobile on Friday announced roughly 6 million additional accounts had data was swiped in a recent hack, bringing the total number of victims of the breach to over approximately 55 million individuals. The revelations come as lawmakers have ramped up scrutiny of the company. An additional 5.3 million subscriber accounts had addresses, names, dates of birth, and phone numbers accessed, T-Mobile said. The company also found that the data of 667,000 more accounts of former T-Mobile customers, including their names, phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth, had been accessed Unlike the first set of customers identified by T-Mobile on Wednesday, none of these additional accounts had their Social Security Numbers or ID information compromised, the company said. The new findings also reveal that phone data, IMEI and IMSIs were also accessed. IMEIs, which are often used for advertising purposes, are a unique fingerprint for a device that cannot be […]
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One day after a House panel grilled social media executives about misinformation on their platforms, a top senator blasted Facebook for its “continued amplification of harmful” posts about COVID-19, especially via Facebook-owned Instagram. Senate Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday, saying the company needed to do more to eradicate misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine than promising action. “Facebook’s enforcement of its own policies is consistently and demonstrably insufficient, a trend we have seen in other areas where Facebook has pledged to address misuse of its products or instances of its products amplifying harmful content,” Warner said in the letter. Warner juxtaposed Facebook’s February update of its policies on medical misinformation with the fact that on the day it announced them, some of the top search results for “COVID vaccine” on Instagram lead to anti-vaccine accounts. In particular, Warner said he was disturbed by a […]
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