Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Contactless fingerprinting uses a smartphone camera to capture your prints—and opens up a whole new set of privacy concerns.
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Credit to Author: Sonya Yuan| Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Many people reportedly died after struggling to access medical care during a brutal lockdown. The families want to make sure these deaths are counted.
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Credit to Author: Chris Stokel-Walker| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:01:24 +0000
Twitter has reportedly given the billionaire access to its full stream of tweets and related user data. Is your privacy in jeopardy?
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 21:46:16 +0000
Using a custom encryption scheme within music notation, Merryl Goldberg and three other US musicians slipped information to Soviet performers and activists known as the Phantom Orchestra.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000
MongoDB claims its new “Queryable Encryption” lets users search their databases while sensitive data stays encrypted. Oh, and its cryptography is open source.
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Credit to Author: Vittoria Elliott| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Apps collect sensitive data that could be subpoenaed by law enforcement or sold by data brokers.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 13:46:02 +0000
Five years after it was torn offline, the resurrected dark web marketplace is clawing its way back to the top of the online underworld.
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Credit to Author: Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: The US admits to cyber operations supporting Ukraine, SCOTUS investigates its own, and a Michael Flynn surveillance mystery is solved.
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Credit to Author: Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica| Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000
The Canada-based company illegally collected “vast amounts of location data,” such as every time a person entered or left their home, workplace, or another coffee shop.
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Credit to Author: Varsha Bansal| Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by India’s telecom regulator aims to make accurate caller ID mandatory, but critics say it may be fundamentally flawed.
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