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usb stick

People who are reselling their USB sticks online don’t know how to erase them properly.Researchers managed to retrieve highly sensitive…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
amazon ring

Jackson police in Mississippi is about to start a 45-day pilot program that will draw live video feed from Ring…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
Donald Trump

The official app of the Trump 2020 political campaign has scraped user data without asking for consent.The app developer is…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
ISPs in Canada Can Charge Money to Expose Pirates

The Canadian data protection commissioner is about to be empowered with a strict new law.Called the CPPA, the law is…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
anonymizer face

A free to use AI-powered tool can help you generate a large number of deepfake faces of yourself.The point of…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
Visualization of internet connection around the world

Government and military entities in at least 25 countries are using SS7-abusing software tools.In most cases, the main goal is…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
Video surveillance

Hikvision and Dahua may be two controversial Chinese companies, but they sell products to 184 countries.The biggest buyer of their…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
pixelized

Passwords that have been pixelated can be recovered up to a point by using unsophisticated tools.The creator of one called…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
LAN cables attached to switches

Apple wants to add another tick on its list of privacy boxes and partners with Cloudflare for it.The two are…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
cookies

The French data protection office fined Amazon and Google a total of 135 million euros.Their violations include serving non-essential cookies…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
us school

U.S. public schools are spending their budget to buy mobile cracking surveillance software.There is no valid explanation for these purchases,…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
apple location

A simple but novel way to abuse the advertising system on mobile platforms has surfaced.A handful of companies are already…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
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Journalists working at media outlets that expose Middle Eastern regimes targeted by ‘Pegasus’ spyware.The hacks were silent and interactionless, raising…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
Unlocked padlock

‘Cellebrite’ posted an announcement detailing how they decrypt Signal data stored in the device.The firm quickly retracted the details of…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
san francisco airport

ACLU wants the CBP proposal for the deployment of facial recognition systems on entry points rejected.CBP wants to take photographs…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
Surveillance camera mounted on a post

American law enforcement agencies, the police, and even private investigators are all using the ‘CellHawk’. This is a very powerful…

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Last updated June 28, 2021

Apple has initiated the roll-out of the anti-tracking message for newly installed/opened apps on iOS 14.A few users are seeing…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
septor featured

Privacy-minded Linux distribution ‘Septor’ abandons Debian stable and jumps to the “testing” branch.Septor is offering an up to date option…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
People in Apple, Inc. facility

The upcoming iOS privacy labels could inform and could confuse, depending on the user’s general understanding. Private Internet Access visits…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
EU_GDPR

Grindr was fined almost ten million Euros for unlawfully collecting and sharing user data with advertisers.This is the first EU-based…

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Last updated June 28, 2021
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