A bill to punish robocallers has finished its passage through Congress and is expected to become law any day now.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number
Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.
Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators
Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!
Proposed standard would make warrant canaries machine-readable
For years, organisations have been using a common tactic called the warrant canary to warn people that the government has secretly demanded access to their private information. Now, a proposed standard could make this tool easier to use.
Mozilla adds NextDNS to list of DNS-over-HTTPS providers
Firefox users interested in turning on the browser’s DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) privacy feature now have two providers to choose from.
Don’t fall for this porn scam – even if your password’s in the subject!
This “I am well aware” email is just another sextortion scam where crooks try to blackmail you with a video they don’t actually have.
Facebook employees’ payroll data nabbed in car smash-and-grab
Bye-bye, payroll data for 29,000 US Facebook employees that got left on an unencrypted drive in an employee’s car.
Police get “unprecedented” data haul from Google with geofence warrants
Investigators are using geofence warrants to get anybody and everybody who’s near a crime at a given time.
Facebook will target ads based on your Oculus VR data
If you’re logged into Facebook, it will suck up information such as which apps you use to provide “relevant content, including ads.”
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.