Group Seeks Investigation of Deep Packet Inspection Use by ISPs
European Digital Rights Organization Seeks Investigation Into Internet Service Providers’ Use of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) European Digital Rights (EDRi), together with 45 NGOs,...
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Facebook Partially Restores Privacy Feature Abused in Massive Breach
Facebook this week informed users that it has partially restored a privacy feature abused by hackers last year as part of an attack that...
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Google’s Titan Security Keys Vulnerable to Bluetooth Attacks
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s offering a free replacement for its Titan Security Key dongles following the discovery of a potentially serious vulnerability....
San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition Use by Police
San Francisco on Tuesday became the first US city to ban use of facial recognition technology by police or other government agencies. Backers of...
Twitter Collected and Shared iOS Location Data
Twitter on Monday revealed that a bug in Twitter for iOS led to the micro-blogging platform inadvertently collecting location data and sharing it with...
Report Links Vast Online Disinformation Campaign to Iran
When an attractive young Middle Eastern woman contacted Saudi dissident Ali AlAhmed over Twitter last November, he was immediately suspicious. The Associated Press was...
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Facebook Patches WhatsApp Flaw Exploited to Spy on Users
Facebook has patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in WhatsApp that can and has been exploited to remotely install spyware on phones by calling the targeted device....
US, EU Spar Over Sharing Electronic Evidence in Investigations
In August 2016, the lifeless bodies of a young French man and woman were discovered on a beach in Madagascar, with murder suspected. The...
Ex-Intelligence Analyst Charged With Leaks to Reporter
A former government intelligence analyst has been charged with leaking classified documents about military campaigns against terrorist group al-Qaeda to a reporter. Daniel Everette...
Anonymous Messengers now banned in Russia
On May 5, a government decree on the obligation of the owners of Messengers to identify the users of their resources by telephone number...