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Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
The agency opposes an amendment that prevents it from using data brokers.
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Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there
Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
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Google admits it’s training AI on scraped web data
Looks like the cat is out of the Bard.
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Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases
Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms.
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The FTC Forces Ring to Take User Privacy Seriously
Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which will require the company to pay $5.8 million over its inability to keep private footage and audio collected from users’ homes.
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DNA Testing Startup Lied To Customers About Deleting Their Data, FTC Alleges
A genetic testing company is under fire from the Federal Trade Commission for failing to protect customer data.
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10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
Spies gonna spy
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Chainguard Unveils Speranza: A Novel Software Signing System
With Speranza, you'll be able to use Sigstore project signing without compromising your privacy.
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FTC Says Ring Employees Illegally Surveilled Customers, Failed to Stop Hackers from Taking Control of Users' Cameras
The Federal Trade Commission charged home security camera company Ring with compromising its customers’ privacy by allowing any employee or contractor to access consumers’ private
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Amazon’s Ring doorbell was used to spy on customers, FTC says in privacy case
In the agency’s latest effort to hold big tech accountable, the company agreed to settle the privacy violations for $5.8m
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Amazon to pay $38 million settlement over allegations of hoarding children's data
Amazon agrees to pay a civil penalty to settle allegations it violated a child privacy law and deceived parents by keeping for years kids' voice and location data recorded by its popular Alexa voice assistant.
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The Massive Fine The EU Hit Meta With… Is Really About The NSA, Not Meta
You may have heard the news that the EU hit Meta with a $1.3 billion fine for violating EU “data privacy rules” and assumed that this was just Meta being Meta and being bad about your privacy. But …
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Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says
Section 702 debate rages after another FISA Court opinion is unclassified.
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Meta's Record-Breaking Fine: A Deep Dive into the $1.3 Billion EU Privacy Violation
In a landmark ruling, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, was slapped with a record-breaking fine of €1.2 billion (approximately $1.3 billion) by the European Union for violating its stringent privacy policies. This fine is the largest ever imposed under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), a set of rules designed to protect customer privacy in the European Union.
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Meta hit with a record-breaking $1.3 billion fine over data privacy breaches
Meta failed to comply with the EU's warning about transferring users' data to US servers, and the fine eclipses Amazon's $807 million fine in 2021.
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The Best Temporary Email Services for 2023
Every time you reveal your email address to a website, you risk having it sold or stolen by hackers. The top temporary email services protect your email by masking it behind site-specific aliases.
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You shed DNA everywhere you go – trace samples in the water, sand and air are enough to identify who you are, raising ethical questions about privacy
Environmental DNA provides a wealth of information for conservationists, archaeologists and forensic scientists. But the unintentional pickup of human genetic information raises ethical questions.
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AI company scraped billions of Facebook photos to use in facial recognition database sold to police
In a BBC interview, Clearview's CEO admitted to scraping photos for its facial recognition database that it sells to law enforcement agencies
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TikTok tracked UK journalist via her cat's account
London-based reporter Cristina Criddle says it was "chilling" to learn her data had been accessed.
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Apple and Google aim to expose Bluetooth tracker abuse
Apple and Google on Tuesday proposed a tech standard to make sure people get tipped off when their movements are being tracked with Bluetooth devices like AirTags or Tile. The tech titans behind rival mobile operating systems that, together, power most of the world's smartphones said the "first-of-its-kind" specification has backing of Samsung, Tile and others.
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