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Lawmakers vote to reauthorize US Espionage Act, which critics say expands government surveillance
By techtost.com
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…
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…
Earlier this week, the US government announced sanctions against the founder of a controversial government spyware maker, Tal Dilian, and his business partner, Sara Aleksandra Fayssal…
The US government on Tuesday announced sanctions against the founder of notorious spyware company Intellexa and one of his business partners. This is the first time…
In July 2021, someone sent Google a bundle of malicious code that could be used to hack Chrome, Firefox, and computers running Microsoft Defender. This code…
State hackers last year exploited three unknown vulnerabilities in Apple’s iPhone operating system to target victims with spyware developed by a European startup, according to Google.…
A geo-protection warrant typo dropped a location dragnet that stretches two miles over San Francisco
By techtost.com
Defenders of civil liberties have long argued that “geographical attack” search warrants are unconstitutional because of their ability to ensnare completely innocent people who were nearby…
A joke – but it’s true — the joke at TechCrunch is that the security office might as well be called the Department of Bad News,…
It’s the season to go a little overboard with the gift. But this year, give the gift of good security (and privacy) and avoid technology that…
Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-standing surveillance practice that allowed police…