The IRS will start using facial recognition this summer — and you'll have to send off a selfie if you want to pay your taxes online businessinsider.com Posted by ghast about on January 24, 2022 at 9:27 AM No comments 1
Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware yewtu.be Posted by ghast about on January 24, 2022 at 9:24 AM No comments 1
The tech for seeing through walls with WiFi is getting really advanced Posted by ghast about on January 19, 2022 at 2:08 AM No comments 2
Twitter thread where Snowden describes how he would use a smartphone if he had to twitter.com Posted by ghast about on January 15, 2022 at 7:43 AM 4 comments 0
The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat technologyreview.com Posted by ghast about on January 15, 2022 at 7:25 AM No comments 1
Verizon customers should opt out of its new data tracking program now bgr.com Posted by ghast about on January 6, 2022 at 1:04 AM No comments 5
In 2018 GAVI "The Vaccine Alliance" published a plan to collect the biometric data of infants in developing countries in order to "accelerate and improve immunization coverage" web.archive.org Posted by ghast about on January 5, 2022 at 10:39 AM No comments 3
More FOSS alternative front-ends and decentralized services over at Silkky Cloud silkky.cloud Posted by benis about on December 29, 2021 at 8:05 PM (edited on December 29, 2021 at 8:06 PM) No comments 3
duh Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show cnet.com Posted by Rambler about on November 10, 2021 at 3:53 PM 2 comments 6
Big update to IncogTube - More than just an invidious install. incogtube.com Posted by Rambler about on October 22, 2021 at 3:04 AM 3 comments 8
7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent | ZDNet zdnet.com Posted by Rambler about on October 16, 2021 at 8:25 PM No comments 2
Former Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Zenmate, and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites restoreprivacy.com Posted by Rambler about on October 11, 2021 at 7:03 PM 4 comments 4
Over 120GB of Twitch website data has been leaked online (source code, encrypted passwords, streamer payouts, etc.) : Twitch incogsnoo.com Posted by Rambler about on October 6, 2021 at 12:02 PM 1 comment 3
Government secretly orders Google to track anyone searching certain names, addresses, and phone numbers washingtonexaminer.com Posted by Rambler about on October 5, 2021 at 11:05 PM No comments 2
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked vice.com Posted by Rambler about on October 5, 2021 at 4:44 PM No comments 2
My employer is forcing everyone to download something called Okta onto their phones. Should I be concerned? : privacy incogsnoo.com Posted by Rambler about on October 3, 2021 at 6:22 PM 2 comments 2
Former Apple engineer says the button on iPhones asking apps not to track you is a 'dud' that gives users a 'false sense of privacy' yahoo.com Posted by Rambler about on September 27, 2021 at 2:16 PM No comments 4
New California law allows academic institutions to pull identifying information of all gun owners from the state registry: name, address, DOB, purchases, etc. leginfo.legislature.ca.gov Posted by Rambler about on September 27, 2021 at 9:23 AM No comments 3
Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik arstechnica.com Posted by whitestar about on September 16, 2021 at 5:19 AM (edited on September 16, 2021 at 5:19 AM) 3 comments 6
ExpressVPN CIO facing $1.6 million DOJ fine for helping United Arab Emirates spy on its enemies cnet.com Posted by whitestar about on September 15, 2021 at 2:15 PM (edited on September 15, 2021 at 2:16 PM) 1 comment 4
Hosting Company Quadranet Asks Court to Dismiss ‘VPN Piracy’ Lawsuit torrentfreak.com Posted by whitestar about on September 15, 2021 at 5:26 AM 1 comment 3
PIA launches privacy antivirus that controls what data is sent to the cloud database privateinternetaccess.com Posted by whitestar about on September 15, 2021 at 3:33 AM (edited on September 15, 2021 at 3:49 AM) 1 comment 2
2021.09.14 : PATCH NOW!!! Apple today has new patch for iPhone to stop a THIRD 0-day remote code insertion exploit! Pegasus uses Apples Diversity Hire staff-built iMessage. msn.com Posted by smartypants about on September 14, 2021 at 10:59 PM No comments 4
Israeli cybersecurity firm buys ExpressVPN for close to $1b timesofisrael.com Posted by awdrifter about on September 14, 2021 at 1:06 PM 2 comments 6
Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw nytimes.com Posted by Rambler about on September 14, 2021 at 10:57 AM No comments 2
The IRS will start using facial recognition this summer — and you'll have to send off a selfie if you want to pay your taxes online
Open Source is Insufficient to Solve Trust Problems in Hardware
The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
Verizon customers should opt out of its new data tracking program now
In 2018 GAVI "The Vaccine Alliance" published a plan to collect the biometric data of infants in developing countries in order to "accelerate and improve immunization coverage"
More FOSS alternative front-ends and decentralized services over at Silkky Cloud
Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show
7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent | ZDNet
Former Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Zenmate, and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites
Over 120GB of Twitch website data has been leaked online (source code, encrypted passwords, streamer payouts, etc.) : Twitch
Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked
New California law allows academic institutions to pull identifying information of all gun owners from the state registry: name, address, DOB, purchases, etc.
Anonymous leaks gigabytes of data from alt-right web host Epik
ExpressVPN CIO facing $1.6 million DOJ fine for helping United Arab Emirates spy on its enemies
Hosting Company Quadranet Asks Court to Dismiss ‘VPN Piracy’ Lawsuit
PIA launches privacy antivirus that controls what data is sent to the cloud database
Israeli cybersecurity firm buys ExpressVPN for close to $1b
Apple Issues Emergency Security Updates to Close a Spyware Flaw