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    Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name

    Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring...

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    Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive

    Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator...

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    Sinking US Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat

    For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction...

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    Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules

    The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has vacated an injunction against an age-verification...

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    US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

    A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible...

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    Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras

    Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras...

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    Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints

    Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the...

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    The UK’s GPS Tagging of Migrants Has Been Ruled Illegal

    The UK’s privacy regulator says the government did not take into account the intrusiveness of ankle...

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    Biden Bans Rival Nations From Buying Sensitive US Data—Good Luck

    The White House issued an executive order on Wednesday that aims to prevent the sale of...

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    A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech

    A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without...

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    A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets

    Plus: Scammers try to dupe Apple with 5,000 fake iPhones, Avast gets fined for selling browsing...

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    Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors

    The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the...

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    Leak Reveals the Unusual Path of ‘Urgent’ Russian Threat Warning

    The US Congress was preparing to vote on a key foreign surveillance program last week. Then...

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    Apple’s iMessage Is Getting Post-Quantum Encryption

    Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet. But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption...

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    Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

    We tested the end-to-end encrypted messenger’s new feature aimed at addressing critics’ most persistent complaint. Here’s...

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    How to Not Get Scammed Out of $50,000

    Plus: State-backed hackers test out generative AI, the US takes down a major Russian military botnet,...

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    Leak of Russian ‘Threat’ Part of a Bid to Kill US Surveillance Reform, Sources Say

    A surprise disclosure of a national security threat by the House Intelligence chair was part of...

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    Surveillance Fight Pits the White House Opposite Reproductive Rights

    Prominent advocates for the rights of pregnant people are urging members of Congress to support legislation...

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    ‘AI Girlfriends’ Are a Privacy Nightmare

    Romantic chatbots collect huge amounts of data, provide vague information about how they use it, use...

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    A Backroom Deal Looms Over a High-Stakes US Surveillance Fight

    Top congressional lawmakers are meeting in private to discuss the future of a widely unpopular surveillance...

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    The Hidden Injustice of Cyberattacks

    Cyberattacks and criminal scams can impact anyone. But communities of color and other marginalized groups are...

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    London Underground Is Testing Real-Time AI Surveillance Tools to Spot Crime

    In a test at one station, Transport for London used a computer vision system to try...

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    WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps

    New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how...

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    US Lawmakers Tell DOJ to Quit Blindly Funding ‘Predictive’ Police Tools

    Members of Congress say the DOJ is funding the use of AI tools that further discriminatory...