Privacy
Dutch intelligence agencies are secretly collecting more information
The General and Military Intelligence Security Service (AIVD and MIVD) have used their special powers more often to secretly gather information.
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No need to ditch adblocker on Chrome: impaired, but “better than nothing”
Google’s changes to its Chrome extensions have left many users confused about their options, with their preferred adblockers either no longer available, or ineffective. The impaired Chrome adblockers are still better than nothing, Ghostery believes, yet warns about potential user migration to other browsers.
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Lloyds Bank accidental data leak affects dozen customers
The UK bank has mistakenly sent information to a customer that affects a dozen of its other clients.
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BSI: “Phishing attacks and data breaches biggest threats for consumers”
The Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), Germany’s cybersecurity agency, found that phishing attacks and data leaks were the most significant digital threats in 2024 for consumers.
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Whittaker: “AI agents pose profound privacy and security risks”
AI agents may be helpful in handling various online tasks, but this new paradigm of computing has a “profound issue” with privacy and security.
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TikTok accused of profiting from child exploitation livestreams, BBC investigation reveals
TikTok is allegedly profiting from teenagers as young as 15 performing sexual livestreams.
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Apple appeals to overturn UK government's 'back door' order – media
Apple has appealed against a British government order to create a "back door" in its most secure cloud storage systems, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday citing people familiar with the matter.
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First lady pushes Congress to pass Take it Down Act to make deepfake revenge porn illegal
America’s First Lady Melania Trump appeared before House lawmakers on Monday, urging for the final passage of the Take it Down Act, in which posting intimate deepfake imagery without that person’s consent would become a federal crime.
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UK launches investigation into TikTok, Reddit over children's personal data practices
Britain's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office, on Monday launched an investigation into how TikTok, Reddit and online image sharing website Imgur safeguard children's privacy.
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France's 'backdoor for the good guys' could put your data at risk
German email provider Tuta has sounded the alarm over an amendment to a French bill, which requires providers of encrypted communication services to implement a backdoor for intelligence agencies.
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Apple to give parents a “private” way to share kids' ages with app developers
Apple on Thursday said it will introduce a way for parents to share the age of a child with app developers without revealing sensitive information such as birthdays or government identification numbers.
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Swedbank accused of violating law by claiming client’s mortgage was “trade secret”
Swedbank, one of the largest banks in Sweden and the Baltic states, has been accused of unlawfully denying a client’s request for information on how their mortgage rate was calculated.
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Firefox keeps supporting powerful privacy extensions while Chrome deprecates them
Mozilla says it will continue supporting important Manifest V2 features that are required for popular ad blockers – such as uBlock Origin – and other privacy tools to work. Some Chrome users are already losing access to these features as Google phases out Manifest V2.
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Signal CEO criticizes WhatsApp’s data collection: “Metadata is deadly”
Meredith Whittaker has lashed out at WhatsApp’s data collection practices.
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Privacy concerns raised over balenaEtcher ISO writing tool, Tails recommends Rufus instead
Privacy focused Linux distribution platform Tails has warned its users to choose Rufus instead of balenaEtcher when creating bootable media.
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Antwerp slammed for recording public conversations under noise pollution program
The Belgium Data Protection Authority (DPA) has ordered the municipality of Antwerp to erase sound recordings made illegally using dozens of sound sensors.
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ChatGPT vs DeepSeek: privacy laws and their relationship with intelligence agencies
There’s little public discussion about the relationship between OpenAI's cloud services and its proximity to a member of the Five Eyes?
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South Korea questions DeepSeek over a matter of national pride
South Korea's spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of "excessively" collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app's responses to questions relating to issues of national pride.
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