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December 16, 2020

Should Amazon’s drugstore know your medical condition?

The new Amazon Pharmacy offers customers convenience and potentially lower prices. But experts warn that users could be jeopardizing their privacy.

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December 16, 2020

COVID Cops in Europe Will Search Your Car for Evidence of Ski Gear

COVID-weary European governments will force anyone caught with ski gear into compulsory quarantine.

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December 16, 2020

Court: Muslim Men Can Sue FBI Agents Over No-Fly List

Court ruled that Muslim men who were placed on the government’s no-fly list because they refused to serve as FBI informants can seek to hold federal agents financially liable.

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December 16, 2020

New report shows Google tracks 80% of the Web, with Amazon likely to overtake Facebook as second-worst privacy threat

Website trackers are used in order to aggregate enormous quantities of data.

December 16, 2020

Amazon Sued For Wiretapping Drivers’ Closed Facebook Groups

Amazon sued for secretly monitoring workers confidential postings in their closed Facebook groups.

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December 16, 2020

U.S. Schools Are Buying Cellebrite Phone-Hacking Tech

Schools in the U.S. are purchasing phone surveillance tools from Cellebrite and companies that offer similar tools used by FBI.

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December 14, 2020

EU-US data transfer clarity may take several months, warns head of EDPS

The head of the EDPS told Reuters said he is doubtful that EU businesses will receive clarity in the coming weeks and months over the uncertainty around EU-US data transfers.

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December 14, 2020

Cloudflare and Apple design a new privacy-friendly internet protocol

Cloudflare and Apple say they’ve developed a new internet protocol that will make it far more difficult for internet providers to know which websites you visit.

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December 14, 2020

Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user’s mailbox

Court in Germany last month ordered Tutanota to help investigators monitor the contents of a user’s encrypted mailbox.

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December 14, 2020

US Congress passes new IoT cybersecurity law

Congress recently made significant progress toward greater IoT security in the United States when it enacted the Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020.