Security, Spoken

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Apple's iMessage Encryption Puts Its Security Practices in the DOJ's Crosshairs Mar 25, 2024

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Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ's new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition—and users.

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Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies Mar 22, 2024

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Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies may get your data from some of the most popular sites online.

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Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name Mar 21, 2024

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Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns.

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Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation Mar 20, 2024

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The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions.

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Sinking US Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat Mar 19, 2024

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For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction of the SAFE Act, all that's left to do now is vote.

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The 4 Big Questions the Pentagon's New UFO Report Fails to Answer Mar 18, 2024

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The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs.

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The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency Mar 15, 2024

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Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more.

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How to Turn Off Facebook’s Two-Factor Authentication Change Mar 14, 2024

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With Meta’s updated 2FA process, the company now automatically trusts devices you often use.

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Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria Mar 13, 2024

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Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.

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Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints Mar 12, 2024

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Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help.

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