The latest Android version continues to improve security and privacy, according to its developers.
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Amazon Scraps Partnership With Surveillance Company After Super Bowl Ad Backlash
Amazon’s smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety.
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WhatsApp Boosts Account Security for At-Risk Individuals
New Strict Account Settings allow users to block attachments and media and silence calls from unknown people.
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TikTok Finalizes a Deal to Form a New American Entity
TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the United States.
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Researcher Spotlights WhatsApp Metadata Leak as Meta Begins Rolling Out Fixes
WhatsApp device fingerprinting can be useful in the delivery of sophisticated spyware, but impact is very limited without a zero-day.
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Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Apple Announces Appeal
Italy’s antitrust authority fined Apple $116 million after determining that operating one of its privacy features restricted App Store competition.
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Rising Tides: When Cybersecurity Becomes Personal – Inside the Work of an OSINT Investigator
Shannon Miller shares her approach to creating domestic safety and a call to the cyber community to help reduce harm.
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Facial Recognition’s Trust Problem
Two technologies — one for public safety, one for controlled entry — show why trust in facial recognition must be earned, not assumed.
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New Firefox Protections Halve the Number of Trackable Users
Mozilla has implemented fresh fingerprinting protections to prevent hidden trackers from identifying Firefox users.
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Google Launched Behind-the-Scenes Campaign Against California Privacy Legislation; It Passed Anyway
In April, Rhode Island resident Navah Hopkins received a plea for her help to defeat legislation thousands of miles away in California. The ask came from Google, maker of the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. The tech giant sent a message to an email list that Hopkins and other small business owners were subscribed […]
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