Nearly $400 Million Penalty Signals Rising Scrutiny of Social Media Giants
A jury in New Mexico has ruled that the company must pay $375 million in civil ...
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Tag: encryption
FBI Blocked From Accessing Reporter’s iPhone Secured by Apple Lockdown Mode in Leak Probe
Federal investigators have so far failed to retrieve data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone after ...
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Meta Sued Over Alleged WhatsApp Privacy Breach and False Encryption Claims
Meta is facing a major lawsuit from users around the world who say the company lied ...
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Switzerland’s New Surveillance Proposal Triggers Major Privacy Backlash
Switzerland has long been viewed as a global symbol of privacy, with its banking system and ...
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FTC Warns Tech Giants Against Foreign Pressure on Encryption
FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson is standing strong against foreign governments that are pressuring American tech ...
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UK Drops Encryption ‘Backdoor’ Demand on Apple After US Pushback
In a significant policy shift, the British government has backed away from its demand that Apple ...
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WhatsApp Threatens India Exit: Privacy Standoff Heats Up Over Encryption Rules
With over 400 million users in India, WhatsApp is the most popular messaging program in the ...
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Signal hires Meredith Whittaker, one of the biggest critics in Big Tech
Signal, which is an encrypted app has hired one of the sharpest and biggest critics that ...
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This Week in Security: The NSA Swears It Has ‘No Backdoors’ in Next-Generation Encryption
A group of human rights lawyers and investigators has asked the Hague to pursue the first-ever ...
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Apple under fire for iPhone encryption technology
Apple's announcement earlier this month of a new child sexual abuse material (CSAM) detection tool drew ...
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