Internet giants are fighting to protect your private browsing history
Earlier this month, the Senate passed the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act to reinstate the expired powers of the PATRIOT Act. […]
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NZ police used unapproved facial recognition software to search for suspects
An unapproved police trial of controversial facial recognition software conducted dozens of searches for suspects in NZ. Police did not […]
Apple whistleblower blasts company over ‘violating fundamental rights’
Thomas le Bonniec revealed last year that while working for Apple he overheard Siri users’ private moments including drug deals […]
Your face mask selfies could be training the next facial recognition tool
Researchers are crawling the internet for photos of people wearing face masks to improve facial recognition algorithms. The practice of […]
REvil Ransomware found buyer for Trump data, now targeting Madonna
REvil ransomware group claims to have buyers ready for documents containing damaging information about US President Donald Trump and is […]
Health officials think Apple and Google virus-tracking apps will be useless
Apple and Google’s last month announced of a joint effort to track the coronavirus. But as the tech giants have […]
Questions remain over whether data collected by Covidsafe app could be accessed by US law enforcement
The federal government has reassured the public that Covidsafe data held by Amazon will not be able to be accessed […]
Criminal forum trading stolen data suffers ironic data breach
Someone on the dark web is touting for sale an unusual database a lot of people might pay handsomely to […]
Xiaomi Devices Found Tracking And Recording Browsing Data Of Millions
Xiaomi has been tracking and recording an insane amount of private data, from user’s phone habits to queries in the […]
EU wants UK to share more data before it grants access to crime-fighting system
European parliamentary committee says UK should share same amount of fingerprint data as member states. The UK should be denied […]
Quibi, JetBlue, Wish, others accused of leaking millions of email addresses to ad orgs via HTTP referer headers
Short-video biz Quibi, airline JetBlue, shopping site Wish, and several other companies leaked million of people’s email addresses to ad-tracking […]
India requires all workers to use its COVID-19 tracking app
India is now mandating that all workers use its COVID-19 contact tracing app, even though there are concerns it violates […]