Banning TikTok Hurts Higher Education
Over the winter holidays, sixteen states—including Georgia and Texas— banned the popular short-form video app TikTok in work contexts, specifically on any…
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Cops Hacked Thousands of Phones. Was It Legal?
For a week in October 2020, Christian Lödden’s potential clients wanted to talk about only one thing. Every person whom the German criminal defense lawyer…
The EU’s Privacy Protections Must Extend Beyond Its Borders
Technology plays a significant role in community building—especially for historically marginalized groups. Women use apps to track all sorts of things,…
Not Big Brother, but close: A surveillance expert explains some of the ways we’re all being…
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A group of researchers studied 15…
Tech companies fueled the rise of Homeland Security and domestic surveillance, report finds
Big tech companies including Microsoft, LexisNexis, and Palantir have helped fuel the militarization of local police forces and the Department of Homeland…
Surveillance, hacking: whistleblower recalls Wirecard nightmare
When short seller Matthew Earl anonymously co-authored a report detailing explosive…
EU fails to protect human rights in surveillance tech transfers | TechTarget
The European Ombudsman has found that the European Commission failed to take necessary measures to ensure the protection of human rights in the…
China’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
It was another busy week in security that saw big news about protests, surveillance, spyware, data breaches, and more. In the US, recent court filings detail…
How Chinese Netizens Swamped China’s Internet Controls
The tragedy came as frustrations with zero-Covid policies were already starting to spike. Violent confrontations had broken out between workers and security…
San Francisco’s Killer Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department of Defense program that sends billions of dollars…