By Deeba Ahmed
The social network giant plans the year’s most extensive bulk data deletion, including wiping out users’ location histories.…
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Tracking, marketing, and analytics firms have been exfiltrating the email addresses of internet users from web forms prior to submission and without user consent, according to security researchers. Some of these firms are said to have also inadvertentl…
Security researchers at NCC Group have created a new tool capable of launching a new type of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) relay attack that bypasses existing protections and mitigations.
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Biofire Technologies has raised $17 million in seed funding to further develop its smart gun, which uses a fingerprint sensor to unlock the trigger. Axios reports: Biofire’s guns only can be fired by authorized users, which should exclude kids or teens…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The anonymous message board app Yik Yak is designed in a way that it is possible to get the precise location of a user’s post, and see users’ unique IDs, potentially allowing someone to dox and stal…
By Waqas
A VPN these days is a must as we know it. The recent growth of VPN use has…
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San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras.
Privacy advocates say the revelation that police are actively using AV footage is cause for alarm.
“This is very concerning,” Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) senior staff attorney Adam Schwartz told Motherboard. He said cars in general are troves of personal consumer data, but autonomous vehicles will have even more of that data from capturing the details of the world around them. “So when we see any police department identify AVs as a new source of evidence, that’s very concerning.”…
BalkanID, a startup with ambitious plans to disrupt the Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) space, has banked $5.75 million in seed funding to help organizations find and remediate risky privileges across SaaS and public cloud infrastructure.
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Russia’s government has put forward a law to force ride-hailing apps to give the FSB intelligence agency real-time access to their data.
The Russian authorities have been ramping up restrictions on public freedoms since the start of Moscow’s offensive …
Encrypted messaging apps could be threatened by requirement for platforms to search for and combat child sexual abuseCritics have accused the European Commission of seeking to end encrypted communications after the EU’s executive body unveiled strict r…