A 2021 intelligence funding draft bill mandates a report on surveillance vendors and which countries or other actors are using spyware.
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Signal: We’ll be eaten alive by EARN IT Act’s anti-encryption wolves
The Big Bad Wolves haven’t blown the house down but did come up with a way to “hold the three little pigs responsible for being delicious,” Signal said.
Congress passes anti-robocall bill
A bill to punish robocallers has finished its passage through Congress and is expected to become law any day now.
Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption
Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it’ll be forced to.
Mozilla says ISPs are lying to Congress about encrypted DNS
Mozilla on Friday posted a letter urging Congress to take the broadband industry’s lobbying against encrypted DNS within Firefox and Chrome with a grain of salt.
Facebook should put a stop to Libra for now, says Congress
Could Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency undermine the security of the global financial ecosystem?
FTC renews call for single federal privacy law
It also wants to be the country’s data-privacy police: commissioners called for more resources and ability to impose penalties.
Tim Cook demands a way for users to delete their personal data
The Apple CEO wants the FTC to set up a data-broker clearinghouse so people can see the data that companies have collected on them.
Proposed US law would require President to act against overseas hackers
A US senator has announced a bill that would force the President to punish overseas hackers found targeting the US, or explain why he hadn’t.
Siri is listening to you, but she’s NOT spying, says Apple
Apple’s working to keep iPhones from eavesdropping on us, through privacy policies, short buffer windows, local storage, and app review.