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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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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports
Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as…
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The FTC’s data-sharing order against GM is finally settled
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday it has finalized an order that bans General Motors and its OnStar telematics service…
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Critics pan spyware maker NSO’s transparency claims amid its push to enter US market
NSO Group, one of the most well-known and controversial makers of government spyware, released a new transparency report on Wednesday,…
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You’ve been targeted by government spyware. Now what?
It was a normal day when Jay Gibson got an unexpected notification on his iPhone. “Apple detected a targeted mercenary…
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