According to Business Insider, the company, which has been plagued by dozens of privacy and security scandals over the past few years, is asking “some new users to provide the social network with the password to their email accounts,” which Facebook then reportedly uses to import the user’s contacts, “despite not asking the user for […]
NATO Chief, in Speech Before Congress, Declares Trump’s Push for More Defense Spending Is Working…
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in a historic address to Congress, declared Wednesday that President Trump’s push for NATO allies to increase their defense spending has “had an impact” and made the alliance stronger. “Allies must spend more on defense. This has been the clear message from President Trump,” he said. “And this message is […]
Internal Facebook Document Leak Shows How Company Planned to Sell User Data…
Leaked Facebook documents including court filings and internal discussions by Facebook employees reveal how the company planned to sell user data for profit. In 2018, the U.K. Parliament used its legal powers to obtain a number of internal Facebook documents as it attempted to hold the social media giant accountable for the Cambridge Analytica data scandal which saw […]
Firefox Browser Introduces Anti-Tracking Privacy Settings…
In a blog post, Firefox’s Vice President of Product Strategy, Nick Nguyen, outlined the browser’s new privacy settings. “One of the features we outlined in our approach to anti-tracking was Enhanced Tracking Protection, otherwise known as ‘removing cross-site tracking’. We initially announced in October that we would roll out Enhanced Tracking Protection off-by-default. This was […]
UK Firms Ready to Microchip Thousands of Employees…
Concern is growing that UK firms are considering implanting microchips into their employees to boost security. Biohax, a Swedish company that provides human chip implants, told the Daily Telegraph it was ‘in talks’ with a number of UK legal and financial firms to implant staff with the devices. Apparently, one client has ‘hundreds of thousands […]
Brussels, City of Spies…
Forget Vienna and Berlin. There’s another big nest of spies in Europe: Brussels. Suspicions among EU officials that the U.K. spied on them to obtain sensitive Brexit plans made headlines in Britain last week. But for many in the Brussels bubble, spying on both friends and foes is simply business as usual. For some foreign […]
How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web…
“I just came across this email,” began the message, a long overdue reply. But I knew the sender was lying. He’d opened my email nearly six months ago. On a Mac. In Palo Alto. At night. I knew this because I was running the email tracking service Streak, which notified me as soon as my […]
NATION’S TOP VOTING MACHINE MAKER FINALLY ADMITS TO INSTALLING ‘REMOTE ACCESS SOFTWARE’ ON ELECTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS…
The nation’s top voting machine maker has admitted in a letter to a federal lawmaker that the company installed remote-access software on election-management systems it sold over a period of six years, raising questions about the security of those systems and the integrity of elections that were conducted with them. In a letter sent to […]