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Rand Paul Promises To Shut Down Nsa Data Center If He Becomes President
Republican Senator Rand Paul has been one of the few vocal critics of the U.S. government’s spying programs. He’s the only presidential candidate that …
Germany Tells Facebook: Delete Racist Anti-Refugee Posts
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas wants Facebook Inc. to remove racist posts targeting asylum seekers after several attacks on refugee camps in Germany over …
Spotify CEO hints why the music service’s privacy policy gets all up in your business
Like nearly every other company on the Internet, Spotify recently changed its privacy policy to gather all kinds of data about you—with your permission. …
Fears of Microsoft scanning your Windows 10 PC for pirated games are overblown
Microsoft sure excels at stirring up needless worry by poorly communicating with the public. Despite Windows 10’s overall excellence, it’s been plagued by privacy …
Jeb Bush Claims That Creating Encryption Harms America
Sometimes you have to wonder if the various political candidates are trying to lose the knowledgeable techie vote. Chris Christie has been strongly pro-surveillance, …
SEC charges 32 in press release hacking, stock trading scheme
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged 32 defendants with fraud in an international scheme that used stolen, yet-to-be-published press releases from hacked …
Global privacy advisory market topping $3B
How much do companies around the world spend each year on data privacy services to fix the problems we read about in the headlines …
Carphone Warehouse in customer data breach
Personal details of up to 2.4 million Carphone Warehouse customers may have been accessed in a cyber-attack, the mobile phone retailer says. Up to …
Carly Fiorina calls on Apple, Google to provide greater access for FBI
Republican presidential candidate and former tech-executive Carly Fiorina has called on Apple and Google to provide greater access to information about their users to …
Crooks exploit public bug to plant adware on Yosemite Macs
A vulnerability in OS X Yosemite that went public last month is being used by cyber criminals to plant adware on Macs, a security …
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