Justice For The Gatwick Two: The Final Chapter In The British Drone Panic Saga

At the end of 2018, a spate of drone sightings caused the temporary closure of London Gatwick Airport, and set in train a chain of events that were simultaneously baffling and comedic as the authorities struggled to keep up with both events and the ever widening gap in their knowledge …read more

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Google Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in Incognito Mode

A $5 billion class-action lawsuit filed in a California federal court alleges that Google’s Chrome incognito mode collects browser data without people’s knowledge or consent. Continue reading Google Faces Privacy Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in Incognito Mode

What are the potential security risks of using a commercial VPN service?

Commercial VPN services are gaining a lot of popularity and some of them are heavily advertising their products on social media networks and technology magazines today.

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No, The Nintendo Leak Won’t Help Emulator Developers, And Here’s Why

If you haven’t heard from other websites yet, earlier this year a leak of various Nintendo intellectual properties surfaced on the Internet. This included prototype software dating back to the Game Boy, as well as Verilog files for systems up to the Nintendo 64, GameCube and Wii. This leak seems …read more

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How could it possibly be that a US person could’ve been fired from multiple law enforcement agencies and nobody knows about it? [closed]

Source: https://youtu.be/9t6AGKINw68?t=64

If a person is fired from a normal job, there will more than likely be records of it.

If a COP is fired from his duty, there WILL without a doubt be records of it!

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Privacy groups are still trying to get documents unsealed in Facebook encryption case

Civil liberties groups on Tuesday asked an appeals court to unseal a federal judge’s ruling that rejected a U.S. government effort to force Facebook to decrypt voice calls. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation argue that the public has a right to know about how U.S. prosecutors tried to force Facebook to decrypt the calls in a 2018 investigation of the MS-13 gang, and why a judge rejected the prosecutors’ effort. The Department of Justice is urging the court to keep the ruling sealed, arguing that making it public could compromise ongoing criminal investigations. It is the latest front in a broader standoff between privacy advocates and law enforcement over access to encrypted communications. Law enforcement officials have for years lamented that strong encryption has hampered investigations into terrorists and criminals. But many technologists say any software especially designed for law enforcement access risks weakening security […]

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