privacy
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American Feds Still Trying to Determine How Screwed They Are After Massive SolarWinds Hack
A cyberattack that began by targeting an IT firm used by numerous federal U.S. government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and other high-value targets is shaping up to be a historic event.
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How Secure Is Your Digital Assistant?
Chatting with Google Assistant, Alexa, or Siri has become a part of our day-to-day life, whether we’re using our voices to turn on smart lights or ask our devices for the weather forecast. But what you might not think about daily is just how secure and private these three voice assistants actually are.
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Everybody Wants a Piece of Facebook
The day after the FTC and dozens of Attorneys General filed two separate suits against Facebook over it anticompetitive track record, the company’s being slammed with yet another antitrust probe — this time, from Germany’s antitrust regulator. Specifically, the country’s Federal Cartel Office (otherwise known as The Bundeskartellamt) announced plans to investigate the tie between…
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U.S. Feds Claim the Patriot Act Allowed Them to Log Visitors to Websites
Letters produced by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and obtained by the New York Times show that the U.S. government has interpreted Section 215 of the Patriot Act as giving it the power to monitor who visits certain websites and when, with minimal oversight.