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Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data
Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass privacy protections that grant the state’s residents new rights over accessing and deleting their…
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Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app
Using an ad blocker is good for your security, privacy, and even the FBI recommends them to defend from online…
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Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks
Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign,…
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Trump Mobile confirms it exposed customers’ personal data, including phone numbers and home addresses
Phone provider Trump Mobile has confirmed that it was exposing customers’ names, email addresses, mailing addresses, cell numbers, and order…
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Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information
President Trump’s namesake cellphone provider and smartphone maker Trump Mobile is leaking customer data, including mailing addresses and email addresses,…
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US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
Almost all of the 20 U.S. state government-run health insurance marketplaces shared residents’ application information with advertising and tech giants,…
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Paragon is not collaborating with Italian authorities probing spyware attacks, report says
Last year, WhatsApp and Apple notified several people in Italy, including journalists and activists, that they had been targeted with…
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US Supreme Court appears split over controversial use of ‘geofence’ search warrants
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a landmark legal case that could redefine digital privacy rights for…
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Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps
Yet another government spyware maker has been caught after its customers used fake Android apps to install its surveillance software…
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Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people’s phone locations, researchers say
Security researchers have uncovered two separate spying campaigns that are abusing well-known weaknesses in the global telecoms infrastructure to track…
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WhatsApp notifies hundreds of users who installed a fake app made by government spyware maker
WhatsApp says it has notified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a malicious fake version of the chat…
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Apple will hide your email address from apps and websites, but not cops
Apple has provided federal agents with the real identities of at least two customers who used one of the company’s…
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