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Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise
Consumer-facing security tools often focus on one kind of modality, such as password protection, VPNs, or identity management. This forces…
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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans’ data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency’s director, Kash…
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Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware
Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his…
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Meta sued over AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, sex, and other footage
Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses and their lack of privacy, after an investigation by…
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Let’s explore the best alternatives to Discord
Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of 2026, and…
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Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock…
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Cellebrite cut off Serbia citing abuse of its phone unlocking tools. Why not others?
Last year, the phone hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as customers, after human rights researchers…
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Intellexa’s Predator spyware used to hack iPhone of journalist in Angola, research says
A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellexa hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, according to Amnesty…
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WhatsApp is rolling out a new stricter security setting to protect users from cyber attacts
Days after Meta was sued by over alleged false privacy claims by its chat app WhatsApp, the company has rolled…
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Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users
Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle claims its voice assistant illegally spied on users to, among other things,…
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Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown
President Donald Trump said he would make countering immigration one of his flagship policies during his second term in The…
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TikTok users freak out over app’s ‘immigration status’ collection — here’s what it means
With the change in TikTok ownership, TikTok users in the U.S. are collectively freaking out over the company’s updated privacy…
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