Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible…
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The Political Theater Behind the State of the Union Data Privacy Push
When it comes to antitrust and tech, there’s a trust deficit on Capitol Hill, even as pressure to act continues to mount. And Senate Democrats…
How the US Can Stop Data Brokers’ Worst Practices—Right Now
The letter also points to databases maintained by the British multinational RELX and the Canadian conglomerate Thomson Reuters, which, according to CUNY law professor Sarah…
Biden’s SOTU: Data Privacy Is Now a Must-Hit US State of the Union Topic
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, enacted in 2018, provides far from perfect data privacy protection, but it stands in stark contrast to the…
Inside Safe City, Moscow’s AI Surveillance Dystopia
“From [an] engineering point of view, it’s very interesting to work with: It’s very difficult,” he says. After the release of FindFace, NTechLab began selling…
Googling for Software Downloads Is Extra Risky Right Now
If you heard rumblings this week that Netflix is finally cracking down on password sharing in the United States and other markets, you heard wrong—but…
The Chinese Spy Balloon Shows the Downsides of Spy Balloons
On Friday, United States secretary of state Antony Blinken said he was canceling a high-profile diplomatic visit to Beijing following the discovery of a large,…
Congress Has a Lo-Fi Plan to Fix the Classified Documents Mess
The fear and trepidation over accidentally letting a secret slip is also hammered into lawmakers’ intelligence staffers, who handle the classified material as further protection…
Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet
After Netflix Spent years piloting different ways to crack down on password sharing, changes to its United States Help Center page this week seemed to…
Enter the Hunter Satellites Preparing for Space War
Rogers’s last job for the government was leading teams within US Space Command that planned how and when to deploy defensive and offensive military space…
You Really Need to Update Firefox and Android Right Now
The Android security patch is available to Google’s Pixel devices, which have their own specific updates, and Samsung’s Galaxy range, including Samsung Galaxy Note 10, Galaxy…
The Untold Story of a Crippling Ransomware Attack
It was a Sunday morning in mid-October 2020 when Rob Miller first heard there was a problem. The databases and IT systems at Hackney Council,…