Tag: Privacy

TrueDialog Database With Tens of Millions of Texts Left Exposed Online
According to researchers at privacy firm vpnMentor, millions...
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China Requiring Facial Recognition Scans For Mobile Users
China is ramping up its attacks on privacy, with new rules due to take effect requiring all citizens to submit to facial recognition scans when registerin...
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Roughly 100 Developers May Have Improperly Accessed FaceBook Groups Data
The last few weeks have seen the news go from bad to worse for Facebook, especially on the privacy front. Now the company is...
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Interpol Delays Encryption Criticism After Pushback
A week ago news broke that the FBI had drafted a resolution for Interpol to release condemning the use of strong encryption. Ultimately the resolution was not passed, with Interpol...
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Filings Reveal There Was a Bidding War Over Fitbit
Fitbit made news recently when it was announced that Google would be purchasing the wearables firm....
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California DMV Selling Drivers’ Personal Information
In a case of “what are they thinking,” the California DMV has admitted that it sells drivers’ information to the tune of $50 million a year, according to...
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OnePlus Reports Second Data Breach in Two Years
OnePlus is reporting the second breach of customer data in as many years. A member of the security team informed customers of the breach on the company’s...
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T-Mobile Suffers Breach, Sensitive Prepaid Data Exposed
T-Mobile announced it has suffered a data breach, exposing prepaid customers’ sensitive inform...
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Android Flaw Lets Rogue Apps Spy On You, Accessing Camera and Mic
Security firm Checkmarx has announced a serious flaw in Android that allows rogue apps to access the camera, as well as the microphone....
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Microsoft Hires Attorney General Eric Holder To Audit AnyVision
NBC News is reporting that Microsoft has hired...
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Border Agents Need Reasonable Suspicion To Search Phones and Computers At The Border
For years, Unites States borders have been a legal no-man’s-land where laws and rights citizens take for granted don’t always apply. Case in point is the search and seizure of elec...
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Google Faces Government Scrutiny Over “Project Nightingale” and Patient Privacy
On the heels of news that Google has partnered with Ascension to collect data on millions of American pat...
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