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The Amazon Astro Robot Watches Everything You Do, Uses Facial Recognition Too

Creepy or hilarious? The recently unveiled Amazon Astro Robot is apparently designed to watch everything you do, using facial recognition on your...

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Lithuania Defense Ministry Urges People To “Get Rid of Chinese Phones” Over Censorship Concerns

The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense recommends not buying Chinese mobile phones and eliminating those currently in use, after an investigation of three...

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PSA: Update Your Apple Devices Now to Avoid the Pegasus Spyware

If you didn’t check your mail today you might have missed the latest PSA from apple: update your Apple devices now! Apple...

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WhatsApp Receives Record Fine: €225m For Breaching Privacy Regulations

Two hundred twenty five million euros. This is the amount that WhatsApp, one of the most popular free messaging apps in...

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Authorities Spread ‘Encrypted’ ANoM App To Criminals Worldwide, Bust More Than 800 Of Them In Massive Sting

Is this the biggest cybersecurity sting in history? The FBI, AFP (Australia’s Federal Police), Europol and multiple agencies took over an encrypted...

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TikTok User Shows How iPhone Takes Infrared Pictures of You Every Five Seconds

The way Face ID works is no mystery but seeing it in action is more than a little unsettling. TikTok user Brie...

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Russian Authorities May Have Been Connected To Colonial Pipeline Attack

On Monday, the FBI issued a statement in which they confirmed that a new ransomware group going by the name of DarkSide was the...

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Apple Vs Facebook: WhatsApp Can’t Limit User Functionality On Apple Devices

In another controversial move, this one directly going against Apple’s App Store policy, WhatsApp has announced that users who do not accept...

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Tim Cook Asked Zuckerberg In A Private Meeting Back in 2019 To Delete All User Data From 3rd Party Apps

Even back in 2019, it seemed that Apple had something to say about Facebook’s user data gathering practices, as Tim Cook urged...

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Famous Police Phone-Cracking Tool Hacked By Signal Founder

In a blog post published on Wednesday last week, Moxie Marlinspike, the CEO of privacy-focused messaging app Signal, claims to have managed to hack...

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The U.S. Adds Seven More Chinese Companies To Its Economic Blacklist

The U.S. Commerce Department announced in a press release on Thursday that it will add “seven Chinese supercomputing entities to the Entity List for...

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Personal Data of Over 500 Million Facebook Users Leaked Online

[adrotate group=“15″] According to security researcher Alon Gal, 533 million Facebook users have had their phone numbers and personal data leaked on...

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New Android App Limits On Play Store in May

[adrotate group=“15″] Last week, Google announced several updates of its Developer Program Policy that concerned Play Store apps. Among them, perhaps the most interesting change concerns...