The CFPB cancels its plans to more tightly regulate US data brokers' ability to sell Americans' sensitive info, like financial data, credit history, and SSNs
Predatory data brokers were just handed a win. — Disappointing: Americans' privacy should be a bipartisan concern. — By @dell.bsky.social @dmehro.bsky.social & @zackwhittaker.com — www.wired.com...
Senator Ron Wyden plans to block Sean Plankey's nomination to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report detailing security flaws at US telecom companies
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The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down and seize Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers
But declined to provide more details. — techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/r... Mastodon: Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social : NEW: Russian crypto exchange Garantex has been seized by the U.S. S...
Apple removes Advanced Data Protection for iCloud in the UK after the government ordered it to build a backdoor, something the company says it will never do
Better no security than a false sense of one. Ari Cohn / @aricohn.com : Apple's UK user data is now more vulnerable. It's not Apple's fault; they're PROTECTING users by not giving a false sense of se...
Records show at least three US federal agencies bought Lorex video surveillance equipment from Chinese firm Dahua Technology despite a government ban
Lorex is owned by Dahua, a technology maker linked to human rights abuses. — At least three U.S. federal agencies, including the military … Tweets: @brendancarrfcc , @adam_k_levin , and @zackwhittak...
Source: 100+ US municipalities have bought surveillance systems made by Chinese companies Hikvision and Dahua, which the US has linked to human rights abuses
Hikvision and Dahua supplied Beijing with technology it used to surveil ethnic groups — At least a hundred U.S. counties … Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker Tweets: Zack Whittaker / @zackwhi...
Google pulls popular transit app New York Subway from Play store, after it was found sharing granular user location data with controversial data broker X-Mode
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WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook
but what's the point? Yash Wate / TechPP : WhatsApp delays new privacy policy update after user backlash Tweets: @whatsapp : Thank you to everyone who's reached out. We're still working to counter any...
Cloudflare and Apple say they have developed a new protocol called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, which decouples DNS queries from internet users for more privacy
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Five Eyes governments as well as India and Japan make a new call for backdoors into products that are end-to-end encrypted
A number of experts have pointed to the information … Manik Berry / Fossbytes : Five Eyes, India, And Japan Want ‘Backdoor’ To End-To-End Encryption Phil Muncaster / infosecurity-magazine.com : Five E...