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January 20, 2021

How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone’s Encryption

New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.

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January 19, 2021

India just had the Biggest Medical Records Breach Ever

In a data breach unprecedented in its scale in India, a large multi-speciality private hospital in Kerala had its complete patient records from the last five years

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January 19, 2021

BA facing potential ‘£800m’ lawsuit over data breach

British Airways (BA) is potentially facing the largest privacy class-action lawsuit in UK history over its mass customer data breach that affected 400,000 people.

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January 17, 2021

WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and iMessage: Choosing a Private Encrypted Chat App

Millions of users flocked to the chat apps in recent weeks. There are a few factors behind the surge.

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January 17, 2021

Google Smart Speakers Offer Guest Mode for Privacy

Google smart speakers now offer Guest Mode, a setting that allows you to boost your privacy using voice control.

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January 17, 2021

Amazon’s Ring Neighbors app exposed users’ precise locations and home addresses

A security flaw in Ring’s Neighbors app was exposing the precise locations and home addresses of users who had posted to the app.

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January 17, 2021

Vaccine passports: what are they and do they pose a danger to privacy?

Race to build app for people to demonstrate Covid-19 jab or a negative test, but rights groups worry about ‘identity checks’.

A laptop displays an image of a hooded figure with green binary code cascading down the screen, resembling hacking or cybersecurity themes. The background is a dark digital matrix with lines of numbers and symbols. The laptop sits on a plain surface.

January 17, 2021

German police take down ‘world’s largest darknet marketplace’

A German-led police sting has taken down the “world’s largest” darknet marketplace.

January 15, 2021

Facebook’s EU-US data transfers face their final countdown

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has agreed to swiftly finalize a long-standing complaint against Facebook’s international data transfers for EU to US.

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January 12, 2021

Experian warns of facial recognition, synthetic ID fraud

The widespread shift to e-commerce and touchless payments has escalated fraud risk, including the possibility of fraudsters combining altered photos with synthetic ID.