Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection
The final element of the complaints claims that Pornhub uses people’s data and “unilaterally assigns sexual preferences to each individual without their knowledge,” according to…
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How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You
How do you tell that your plane ticket is real? If it checks out on the airline’s website, you’re good to go, right? Don’t be…
The Night 17 Million Precious Military Records Went Up in Smoke
Owens, who has spent more than two decades working at the records center, is a burly guy in his early fifties, wearing deliberately distressed jeans…
The US Senate Wants to Reign In AI. Good Luck With That
While negotiations started with Young and Schumer, they didn’t end there. Rather, the pair heard input from other congressional committees and worked that into the…
5 Ways to Make Your Instant Messaging More Secure
The actual number of chat messages sent each day is hard to come by, but with WhatsApp alone accounting for billions of users, you can…
Update Your iPhone Right Now to Fix 2 Apple Zero Days
Apple says the patches fix a memory corruption that allowed an app to execute arbitrary code and a WebKit vulnerability that enabled malicious code execution…
Inside the Illicit Market for Abortion Pills on Telegram
Hundreds of messages from the data that contained pricing information indicate that the average cost of purchasing a purported pack of abortion pills on Telegram…
Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets
Documents obtained by the ACLU show devices of this type—the police use of which is authorized by the Federal Communications Commission—are listed as defense articles…
How the Most Popular Cars in the US Track Drivers
Privacy4Cars results say it is unclear how Honda uses biometric data, which is information about your body. Honda’s Martin says no Acura or Honda models…
Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
Artificial intelligence is arguably the most rapidly advancing technology humans have ever developed. A year ago you wouldn’t often hear AI come up in a…
A Newly Named Group of GRU Hackers is Wreaking Havoc in Ukraine
Finally, the Russia-based ransomware gang Clop went on a hacking spree that hit US government agencies and international companies including Shell and British Airways. Clop…
Clop Hacking Rampage Hits US Agencies and Exposes Data of Millions
United States cybersecurity officials said yesterday that a “small number” of government agencies have suffered data breaches as part of a broad hacking campaign that…