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.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Russia’s sovereign internet law comes into force
The new law compels the country’s ISPs to forward all data arriving and departing from their networks through special gateway servers.
US grounds Chinese-made drones as part of security review
The exception: drones being used in emergencies, such as fighting wildfires, search and rescue, and dealing with natural disasters.
Judge lambasts porn company for spewing copyright lawsuits
A US court shielded ISP account holders from a request for expedited discovery to see whose IP addresses were used to share pirated videos.
WhatsApp sues spyware maker for allegedly hacking phones worldwide
WhatsApp has publicly attributed the attack on its users in May 2019 to the Israeli spyware makers, NSO Group.
Uber sues LA in bid to protect scooter riders’ geolocation data
The anonymized real-time location data the city’s after can easily be associated with riders, thereby jeopardizing their privacy, Uber says.
New Facebook AI fools facial recognition
The technology – which Facebook won’t use in its own apps – subtly distorts face images so they’re still recognizable, but not to machines.
New BBC ‘dark web’ Tor mirror site aims to beat censorship
A mirror copy of the BBC’s international news website is now available to users on the so-called dark web.
Firefox Privacy Protection makes website trackers visible
Mozilla has added another privacy tweak to Firefox version 70 – the ability to quickly see how often websites are tracking users.
Keylogging data vampire pleads guilty to bleeding two companies
He drained data from firms working on hot new technology, sneaking in with a fake access badge, planting hardware and software keyloggers.