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Want your unemployment benefits? You may have to submit to facial recognition first
After being let go from his job as a software quality-assurance engineer in April, Eric Watkins said he filed for unemployment benefits in Colorado. But he hasn’t received a penny of the $6,490 he sai...
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The Nightmare of Our Snooping Phones
A Catholic official’s resignation shows the real-world consequences of practices by America’s data-harvesting industries.
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Amnesty categorically stands by Pegasus Project data set
Amnesty International categorically stands by the findings of the Pegasus Project, and that the data is irrefutably linked to potential targets of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.
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Personal Panopticons — Real Life
A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it
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Avoid these guys like the plague. If you want private email go with 'protonmail'. They just passed an external security audit too.
DuckDuckGo launches new Email Protection service to remove trackers
Goosing privacy protections.
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Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon
Spyware sold to authoritarian regimes used to target activists, politicians and journalists, data suggests
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Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide
Military-grade spyware licensed by an Israeli firm to governments for tracking terrorists and criminals was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, human rig...
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Ending Anonymity: Why the WEF’s Partnership Against Cybercrime Threatens the Future of Privacy
With many focusing on tomorrow’s Cyber Polygon exercise, less attention has been paid to the WEF’s real ambitions in cybersecurity...
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Restoring your privacy costs money, which makes it a marker of class
Opting out of data monetisation is neither easy nor cheap
