As of February 21, Apple device users in the UK began seeing a notice that the iCloud end-to-end encryption feature is no longer available in their region. That stems from a secret order recently issued by the Home Office, only made known to the public due to inside sources leaking it to the media, requiring Apple to start implementing backdoor access to encrypted cloud data and to begin complying immediately.
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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and writer for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.
Google's long-running project to eliminate cookies from Chrome is about to wind up, but it has come with a reversal of course that now allows device fingerprinting. The new Google rules were quietly announced in December of last year but seemed to slip beneath the radar.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that while some aspects of Elon Musk and DOGE's legal level of access to federal data remain in doubt, a restraining order cannot be issued unless specific and immediate harms can be demonstrated.
A new report from cybersecurity firm Hudson Rock finds that infostealer malware is present on "thousands" of systems belonging to the US military and major defense contractors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
The AI software has reportedly been used to search federal data about agency spending on payroll and programs, something that could potentially violate federal privacy or security regulations if personal information is involved.
Recent DOGE actions in U.S. Treasury computer systems have raised particular privacy concerns and triggered lawsuits. Some government officials and legal experts are claiming that this access to federal data breaches the Privacy Act of 1974 among other regulations.
In a move that was widely expected, U.S. lawmakers have proposed a DeepSeek ban on any and all federal government devices. The move may have been prompted by analysis of DeepSeek code that seems to show a direct connection to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
WhatsApp told media outlets that it had "high confidence" that journalists and activists were targeted by Paragon spyware and that they were "possibly compromised." It did not provide names of people it believed to be compromised.”
The Italian data protection authority has announced that DeepSeek was formally blocked for failure to provide sufficient information in response to the request. The Chinese company appears to have taken a combative tone.
The database leak incident comes as DeepSeek is experiencing an amazing period of rapid success, but has also been tripped up by several other security issues in quick succession. The chat history exposure is joined by a DDoS and jailbreak issues that could undermine trust.









