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The next few weeks can be decisive for Worldcointhe controversial eyeball-scanning crypto venture co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, whose operations remain almost entirely shuttered in the…

Last week, an unknown hacker broke into the servers of US-based stalkerware maker pcTattletale. The hacker then stole and leaked the company’s internal data. They also…

According to TechCrunch, a leading European privacy watchdog is investigating after recent breaches of Dell customers’ personal information. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) deputy commissioner Graham…

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…

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission announced Monday that it is fining the four major U.S. wireless carriers about $200 million in total for “unlawfully” sharing and…

Last week when A security researcher said he could easily get the exact location of any of the millions of users of a widely used phone…

AT&T’s recent major breach of customer data — 74 million accounts were affected — revealed just how much data carriers have on their users, and that…

Businesses are amassing more data than ever to fuel their AI ambitions, but at the same time they’re also concerned about who can access that data,…

US police departments increasingly rely on a controversial surveillance practice to demand large amounts of user data from tech companies, with the goal of tracking down…

The Indian government has finally resolved a long-standing cybersecurity issue that exposed a trove of sensitive data about its citizens. A security researcher exclusively told TechCrunch…