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Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids | World news | The Guardian
Fueled by fears of school shootings, the market has grown rapidly for technologies that monitor students through official school emails and chats
Avast deploys hardened self-defense and wider intelligence industry collaboration to fight off cyber-espionage attempt, Abiss
As the company whittles away free storage offers and prompts more people to pay, that creates a new revenue stream.
Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown
CVE-2019-16920 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to execute code on a target device.
Researchers at Google’s security group Project Zero have found an active vulnerability in Android that affects several popular devices including the Pixel 2, Huawei P20 Pro, and Xiaomi Redmi Note 5. A post from the security group suggests it found the bug last week, and attackers were exploiting it at that moment. The post notes …
San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law enforcement agencies under which the police and sheriff’s departments will turn over license plate data they...
France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity -- whether they want it or not.
They need facial scans of people with darker skin
My wanting to share every waking thought became eclipsed by a desire for an increasingly rare commodity — a private life.
The internet is so saturated with 5-Star praise—some genuine, much paid for—that it’s difficult to know which sites you can trust
In a first, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that companies violated civil rights law through their use of Facebook’s targeting advertising.
Amazon's new Sidewalk protocol and Apple's experiments with ultra-wideband signal a new battleground that gets Amazon out of the house and Apple inside it