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Apple Saves Your Seed Phrase on iCloud, MetaMask Warns Users - The Tokenist
Having all of your wealth stored on a single device managed by a single corporation could be dangerous.
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CatalanGate: Extensive Mercenary Spyware Operation against Catalans Using Pegasus and Candiru - The Citizen Lab
The Citizen Lab, in collaboration with Catalan civil society groups, has identified at least 65 individuals targeted or infected with mercenary spyware, including members of the European Parliament, C...
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How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
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Assume your devices are compromised
For decades, we have assumed our local computing devices are a safe place to store digital secrets. Most software, systems and security protocols make this assumption.
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Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
Scott Durvin says he faced aggressive questioning from a Chesterfield County Police detective after his friend died of a drug overdose at the end of 2019. What he didn’t know
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House panels probe gov’t use of facial recognition software
Two House committees have launched an investigation into the government’s use of facial recognition software that was most recently used by the Internal Revenue Service, but stopped after complaints f...
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You’re muted — or are you? Videoconferencing apps may listen even when mic is off
Not only did researchers find that the apps gather audio data while ‘mute’ is activated; they could identify activities picked up when microphones weren’t believed to be on, such as eating, playing mu...
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Ex-Meta employee warns about the threat to privacy in the metaverse
Francis Haugen, a former Meta employee turned whistleblower, spoke of concerns about transferring the company’s abuses into the metaverse being created. Politico writes about it.
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You’re Still Being Tracked on the Internet, Just in a Different Way
Apple and Google are pushing privacy changes, but a shift in digital tracking is giving some platforms a bigger advertising advantage.
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Ministry considers allowing police to use passport fingerprints in solving crimes
The Ministry of the Interior is investigating whether fingerprints taken for passports and identity cards could be handed over to the police for the investigation of serious criminal acts.