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New Mac app wants to record everything you do—so you can “rewind” it later [Updated]

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Enlarge / Rewind reportedly lets you search your Mac's usage history for what you've seen, said, or heard. (credit: Rewind AI) Yesterday, a company called Rewind AI announced a self-titled software product for Macs with Apple Silicon that reportedly keeps a highly compressed, searchable record of everything you do locally …

TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data

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Privacy policy update confirms data of continent’s users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US TikTok is spelling out to its European users that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid political and regulatory concerns about …

Can a new form of cryptography solve the internet’s privacy problem?

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Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure may revolutionise fields from healthcare to law enforcement Rachel is a student at a US university who was sexually assaulted on campus. She decided against reporting it ( fewer than 10% of survivors do). What she did, however, was …

Interview with Signal’s New President

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Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker: WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. That was absolutely a visionary choice that Brian and his team led back in the day ­- and big props to them for doing that. But you …

Spyware Maker Intellexa Sued by Journalist

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The Greek journalist Thanasis Koukakis was spied on by his own government, with a commercial spyware product called “Predator.” That product is sold by a company in North Macedonia called Cytrox, which is in turn owned by an Israeli company called Intellexa. Koukakis is suing Intellexa. The lawsuit filed …

Government considers centralising digital ID verification on myGov in wake of Optus breach

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Experts warn using any single system could have its own cybersecurity weaknesses leaving data vulnerable to misuse Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates ​​Get our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcast The Australian government is considering using myGov or its myGovID …

Differences in App Security/Privacy Based on Country

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Depending on where you are when you download your Android apps, it might collect more or less data about you. The apps we downloaded from Google Play also showed differences based on country in their security and privacy capabilities. One hundred twenty-seven apps varied in what the apps were …

Optus tells former Virgin Mobile and Gomo customers they could also be part of data breach

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Identification repair service receives a month’s worth of complaint calls in three days as government pressures telco to pay for replacement ID documents Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast Former Virgin Mobile …

Companies could be forced to delete customer data used to prove ID, Labor suggests

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Albanese government considering sweeping overhaul of data retention and privacy laws following massive Optus cyber hack Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast Companies could have the right to retain customers’ data stripped back …

Attorney general flags urgent privacy law changes after Optus data breach

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Mark Dreyfus indicates potential reforms to laws regarding data breaches including higher penalties, mandatory precautions and customer notifications Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcast Privacy law changes, including tougher penalties for data breaches …

Optus customers, not the company, are the real victims of massive data breach | Justin Warren

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Optus executives are paid millions to ensure that, among other things, customer data is safe. These are the people who should be held accountable for the data breach. Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news …

Sophisticated attack or human error? How Optus lost control of your data

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In the days since Optus first reported that potentially millions of its customers’ private information – from birth dates to Medicare numbers – had been breached, it has faced threats of blackmail, a potential class action and a public spat with the home affairs minister. Reporter Josh Taylor and Jane Lee …

Apps can pose bigger security, privacy threat based on where you download them

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Enlarge (credit: https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/blinkee-city-rental-scooter-is-seen-in-warsaw-poland-on-news-photo/1031626648 ) Google and Apple have removed hundreds of apps from their app stores at the request of governments around the world, creating regional disparities in access to mobile apps at a time when many economies are becoming increasingly dependent on …

Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set

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Enlarge / Censored medical images found in the LAION-5B data set used to train AI. The black bars and distortion have been added. (credit: Ars Technica) Late last week, a California-based AI artist who goes by the name Lapine discovered private medical record photos taken by her doctor in 2013 …

Large-Scale Collection of Cell Phone Data at US Borders

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The Washington Post is reporting that the US Customs and Border Protection agency is seizing and copying cell phone, tablet, and computer data from “as many as” 10,000 phones per year, including an unspecified number of American citizens. This is done without a warrant, because “...courts have long …

FTC sues data broker that tracks locations of 125M phones per month

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued a data broker for allegedly selling location data culled from hundreds of millions of phones that can be used to track the movements of people visiting abortion clinics, domestic abuse shelters, places of worship, and other sensitive places …

CEO of Israeli Pegasus spyware firm NSO to step down

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CEO Shalev Hulio is stepping down as part of NSO reorganisation that will see it focus on sales in Nato member countries Israel’s NSO Group, which makes the globally controversial Pegasus spyware said on Sunday its CEO Shalev Hulio would step down as part of a reorganisation. The …

iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A security researcher says that Apple's iOS devices don't fully route all network traffic through VPNs as a user might expect, a potential security issue the device maker has known about for years. Michael Horowitz, a longtime computer security blogger and researcher, puts it plainly …

Amid backlash from privacy advocates, Meta expands end-to-end encryption trial

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Meta is ever so slowly expanding its trial of end-to-end encryption in a bid to protect users from snoops and law enforcement. End-to-end encryption, often abbreviated as E2EE, uses strong cryptography to encrypt messages with a key that is unique to each user. Because the …

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