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As US spy laws expire, lawmakers divided over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance
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A longstanding law that allows US intelligence agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of communications abroad without the need for search warrants is set to…
As US spy laws expire, lawmakers divided over protecting Americans from warrantless surveillance
By techtost.com
A longstanding law that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of communications abroad without the need for search warrants is set to…
The European Parliament is blocking artificial intelligence on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks
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The European Parliament has reportedly barred lawmakers from using artificial intelligence tools on their work devices, citing cybersecurity and privacy risks by uploading confidential mail to…
New York state legislators have introduced a bill which will impose a moratorium of at least three years on permits associated with the construction and operation…
A group of Democratic lawmakers has sent letters to several state governors, including Arizona, California, Colorado and Wisconsin, warning that their states are inadvertently sharing driver…
Lawmakers have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Flock Safety, a company that operates license plate scanning cameras, for allegedly failing to implement cybersecurity protections…
A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan citizens’ private messages in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) poses a risk to the…
EU watchdog questions privacy over CSAM scan proposal that breaks lawmakers’ encryption
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The European Commission has again been called on to more fully disclose its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders, in relation to a controversial…
Lawmakers vote to reauthorize US Espionage Act, which critics say expands government surveillance
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Lawmakers passed legislation early Saturday reauthorizing and expanding a controversial U.S. surveillance law shortly after the powers expired at midnight, shrugging off opposition from privacy advocates…
EU lawmakers are under pressure to fully disclose their dealings with child safety technology maker Thorn
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More trouble for European Union lawmakers in a controversial area of technology policymaking – namely the bloc’s proposed legislation to apply monitoring technologies such as client-side…