20 Years of NSA Spying on U.S. Citizens
Privacy is Cybersecurity T-Shirt On the Anniversary of 9/11 there is so much commentary on social media about the losses suffered. The hate of a small group of radical terrorists…
Apple stalls CSAM auto-scan on devices after ‘feedback’ from everyone on Earth
Apple said it intends to delay the introduction of its plan to commandeer customers' own devices to scan their iCloud-bound photos for illegal child exploitation imagery, a concession to the…
How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet
There's something of an open secret in the cybersecurity world: internet service providers quietly give away detailed information about which computer is communicating with another to private businesses, which then…
Critical bug impacting millions of IoT devices lets hackers spy on you
Security researchers are sounding the alarm on a critical vulnerability affecting tens of millions of devices worldwide connected via ThroughTek’s Kalay IoT cloud platform. The security issue impacts products from…
Apple Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Their iPhones
In a new editorial published by The Washington Post, a pair of researchers who spent two years developing a CSAM (child sexual abuse material) detection system similar to the one…
Apple’s bright idea for CSAM scanning could start ‘persecution on a global basis’
More than ninety human rights groups from around the world have signed a letter condemning Apple's plans to scan devices for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) – and warned Cupertino…
Google to introduce increased protections for minors on its platform, including Search, YouTube and more
Weeks after Instagram rolled out increased protections for minors using its app, Google is now doing the same for its suite of services, including Google search, YouTube, YouTube Kids, Google…
Facebook is rebuilding its ads to know a lot less about you
Facebook’s massive business was built on its ability to track users across the internet. But now, thanks to looming regulation and other moves to restrict such data collection, that is…
Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account
As people work and socialize from home, video conferencing software Zoom has exploded in popularity. What the company and its privacy policy don't make clear is that the iOS version…
T-Mobile has been hacked yet again—but still doesn’t know what was taken
T-Mobile said on Monday that hackers breached its internal servers and that company investigators are in the process of determining if the incident involves the theft of sensitive customer data.…