The privacy-focused tech company’s latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone. At the end of April, Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency tools shook the advertising industry to its core. …
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On September 26, 2018, a row of tech executives filed into a marble- and wood-paneled hearing room and sat down behind a row of tabletop microphones and tiny water bottles. They had all been called …
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Security researchers have found signs that the pervasive hacking and misinformation campaign comes not from Moscow but from Minsk. For at least four years, the hacking and disinformation group known has Ghostwriter has plagued countries …
‘Ghostwriter’ Looks Like a Purely Russian Op—Except It’s Not Read More »
Unlike other social apps, TikTok didn’t become a global success by connecting people with their friends and family. Its stated mission is to “inspire creativity and build joy,” a far cry from Facebook’s goal to …
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Since at least late August, sophisticated hackers used flaws in macOS and iOS to install malware on Apple devices that visited Hong Kong–based media and pro-democracy websites. The so-called watering hole attacks cast a wide …
Hackers Targeted Apple Devices in Hong Kong for Widespread Attack Read More »
On Friday, the radical transparency group DDoSecrets released hundreds of hours of police helicopter surveillance footage. It’s unclear who originally obtained the data, or what that person’s motivations were, but the trove shows how extensive …
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Law enforcement use of surveillance drones has proliferated across the United States in recent years, sparking backlash from privacy advocates. But newly leaked aerial surveillance footage from the Dallas Police Department in Texas and what …
1.8 TB of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage Leaks Online Read More »
There are two big reasons why people get hacked. Flaws in software and flaws in human behavior. While there’s not much you can do about coding vulnerabilities, you can change your own behavior and bad …
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There’s a lot to worry about in the world today, so apologies in advance for this additional level of existential stress: New research indicates that in the event of a solar superstorm—the kind that hit …
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Police around the country have drastically increased their use of geofence warrants, a widely criticized investigative technique that collects data from any user who was in a specified area within a certain time range, according …
An Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Across the US Read More »
Natural language processing continues to find its way into unexpected corners. This time, it’s phishing emails. In a small study, researchers found that they could use the deep learning language model GPT-3, along with other …
AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test Read More »
Facebook and Google are the web’s biggest advertising powerhouses. But Spotify has ambitions to rival them. And it has all the data it needs to do just that. Each day hundreds of millions of people …
All the Ways Spotify Tracks You—and How to Stop It Read More »