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• Pardon the Intrusion #21: What does the privacy label say?

  Apple has introduced a new privacy-focused "nutrition label" for third-party apps that clearly describe how apps use your ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall

  The White House has struck a deal with Palmer Luckey's Anduril Industrial to erect an AI-powered partition along the US-Mexico ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• The lack of women in cybersecurity puts us all at greater risk

  Women are highly underrepresented in the field of cybersecurity. In 2017, women’s share in the U.S. cybersecurity field ...

  • The Conversation

• Democrats and civil liberties groups back law banning facial recognition across the US

  New legislation that would ban police use of facial recognition software across the US has been backed by civil liberties ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Pardon the Intrusion #20: SMS authentication needs to go

  Relying on SMS for two-factor authentication can also have unintended consequences, with no means to retrieve OTP codes during ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Australia hit by cyber attacks from 'state actor' — experts suspect it's China

  Australia has been targeted by ongoing "sophisticated" cyber attacks from a "state-based actor," Prime Minister Scott Morrison ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• If I go to a protest, what kind of personal information might police collect about me?

  On the evening of May 29, New Yorkers went out by the thousands for the first big day of protests following the murder of George Floyd. If they were checking Twitter as they headed out the door, they may have seen a surprising warning issued by Terri Rosenblatt, supervising attorney ...

  • The Markup

• Zoom says it'll provide end-to-end encryption even for free users now

  After mounting pressure from privacy activists and users, Zoom said today that it'll provide end-to-end encryption protection to everyone -- including free users. Earlier this month, the company had said that it'll provide this feature to only paid users to comply with law enforcement ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Meet Orwell, Russia’s cute and totally not sinister new facial recognition system for kids

  According to Russian business daily Vedomosti, a new facial recognition system coming to every school in the country has ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• What are my photos revealing about me?

  For years, tech savvy people have known that photos shot on your phone contain lots of information that you may not want ...

  • The Markup

• The case for biometric authentication — and why we should ditch passwords

  According to Forbes, business leaders from a variety of industries have joined forces to face one unexpected enemy. That ...

  • Gil Artmoore

• Pardon the Intrusion #19: Paying for Privacy

  Zoom confirmed that it plans to offer stronger encryption features only for its paying users. It won't be extended to the ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan