Security / Privacy
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Paper Trail
J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows
US senator J.D. Vance, an Ohio Republican and former US president Donald Trump’s pick for vice president, has a public…
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FISA Fight
US Senators Secretly Work to Block Safeguards Against Surveillance Abuse
Members of the United States Senate have been working for more than a month to shore up safeguards against further…
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security
Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach
But that’s not all. Each week, we round up the security news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. Click on…
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Breaking Records
The Sweeping Danger of the AT&T Phone Records Breach
From targeted wiretaps to bulk surveillance dragnets, phone companies have been at the center of privacy concerns for decades—and their…
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Blanket Security
Google Is Adding Passkey Support for Its Most Vulnerable Users
The password killers known as “passkeys” are now available to users of Google’s Advanced Protection Program, which works to add…
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security
Hackers Leaking Taylor Swift Tickets? Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Proton, the company behind Proton Mail, launched an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, seeking to compete with the cloud…
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security
How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’
Yet Google and its hardware partners argue privacy and security are a major focus of the Android AI approach. VP…
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Private Notes
Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs
When particle physicist Andy Yen launched the privacy-focused email service Proton Mail as an ambitious crowdfunding campaign in 2014, the…
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