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Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.

Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand surveillance of protesters and students.

The agreement settles several claims Texas made against the search giant in 2022 related to geolocation, incognito searches and biometric data.

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A Toronto woman is raising concerns about her privacy being breached after she received a text message transcript of her conversation with her roommates during a Lyft ride last month.

Software from a company called Alphonso can be used to listen in to the environment around a user, to work out what they’re watching

Travelers should prepare for extra scrutiny of devices when crossing borders, especially when entering the U.S.

Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

“After discovering this content, I’m not going to lie… there are times it made me not want to be around any more either,” she said. “I literally felt buried.”

noyb filed a lawsuit against Sweden's Tax Agency, accusing it of selling citizens' personal information to marketers and advertisers.

Yes, encryption/decryption occurs on end-user devices, but there’s a catch.

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The popular "bypassnro" command, which let users to skip connecting to the Internet and signing into a Microsoft Account, is being removed.

A man didn't just have his ID stolen, identity theft ruined his life and robbed him of a promising future.

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In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutt...

The report highlights Iran’s escalating reliance on technology to monitor and punish women defying the mandatory dress code. Central to this crackdown is the “Nazer” mobile application, a government-b...

The oversight and investigative body of NASA spent $16,000 on the technology, 404 Media previously reported.

Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS...

Microsoft is now in the process of turning off Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge, such as uBlock Origin. However, not everything is lost at this point.

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UK forces Apple to provide encrypted data to security agencies—is America next?

Privacy is only dead if we let it die. Be careful about the all-or-nothing mindset in data privacy, it can do more damage than good to the cause. While striving for improvements, do not forget to chee...

From the billionaire who said real-time surveillance is good for keeping us in check