FBI defended a nearly threefold increase in FISA warrantless searches by claiming that it was necessary to curtail a wave of foreign threat actors conducting operations against domestic firms.
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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.
Information displayed is very similar to what is seen on Apple's privacy labels, but it remains to be seen if Google Play effectively enforces the inclusion of accurate information about Android apps.
Digital Services Act would bring new restrictions on how targeted advertising can use sensitive personal information and a requirement that the inner workings of recommender algorithms be visible to the public.
Ransomware group claims that it stole 161 GB of data from Coca-Cola, including login credentials and financial data, and offering data for sale at 1.6 bitcoin (about $64,000). Coca-Cola has yet to confirm the data theft.
Leaked document saw a Facebook engineer lament the international privacy regulations that the company is now subject to, describing them as a "tsunami." Facebook now faces some sort of user data compliance requirements in over 100 countries.
Microsoft researchers say that Russian cyber attacks in March against a television broadcaster and a nuclear plant directly preceded military action directed at those targets.
Whether it is company culture or an individual attitude, developers do appear to be commonly shipping vulnerable code with the full knowledge that there are weaknesses in it.
Proposed new features and app concepts are reportedly being nixed solely because of fears they will violate Apple’s privacy rules. Examples include scrapped plan to allow voice purchases via Siri.
Tornado Cash said that the OFAC sanctioned address that was being used to process the $625 million stolen from NFT game Axie Infinity's Ronin bridge had already been blocked.
UIDAI's handling of Aadhaar is likely to be facing substantial reforms, not just due to the findings of this data management report but also due to ongoing controversy over constitutionality.
