Surfshark VPN said Tuesday it will soon release updates to its popular virtual private network app, after it was among six popular VPNs dinged by AppEsteem researchers for unsound security design in an April report. Researchers revealed that the Surfshark app obtains an alarming amount of influence over a user’s device security by installing a …
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The Commerce Department on Wednesday barred US firms from exporting quantum computing technology to eight Chinese companies and labs to try to keep the country from decrypting sensitive US communications and developing new military technology. “Global trade and commerce should support peace, prosperity, and good-paying jobs, not national security risks,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said in a statement. Though still technologically …
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Huawei Technologies’ Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou agreed to a deferred prosecution deal with the Department of Justice after appearing in federal district court in Brooklyn on Friday, the DOJ said in a statement. Meng, who has been detained in Canada since 2018, will also be allowed to return to China in exchange for admitting some wrongdoing in a sanctions violation …
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Over the last three years, Google has received a surge in geofence warrant requests — a type of request that allows police to gather information on devices in a certain region. The company has also been complying with keyword warrants, which gives police information on anyone who’s looked up specific phrases on the search engine. But the public doesn’t know …
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Chinese officials apparently have something to say about a TikTok sale to a US company, with two bits of news coming out of China that reportedly could make potential buyers such as Microsoft and Oracle wary. China updated the country’s export-control rules on Friday, to cover what it considers sensitive technologies, including, possibly, the popular video app’s personalized recommendation engine, …
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Geofence warrants are a concern among privacy advocates and lawmakers, and recently unsealed court documents show that Google engineers also have issues with the sweeping requests for location data. On Friday, Arizona’s attorney general published internal emails from Google obtained as part of an ongoing lawsuit by the state on alleged consumer fraud and location data. Google had fought to keep …
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Travelers heading to the US have many reasons to be cautious about their devices when it comes to privacy. A report released Thursday from the Department of Homeland Security provides even more cause for concern about how much data border patrol agents can pull from your phones and computers. In a Privacy Impact Assessment dated July 30, the DHS detailed its …
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For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. The US Senate voted down an amendment to the USA Patriot Act on Wednesday that would create a tougher standard for government investigators to collect the web search and browsing histories of people in the states. The bipartisan amendment, proposed by Sen. Ron …
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Your car knows a lot more about you than you think. It gathers all sorts of information, from where you’ve been to whom you’ve talked to and what music you like, and police are able to get all of that information without a warrant. A Georgia Supreme Court case could change that. The American Civil Liberties Union argued Wednesday that …
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New technology can improve our lives, but it can also come with unforeseen pitfalls. Cameras are now smaller, better and smarter than ever before, and that, warns the American Civil Liberties Union, could be an issue in the future. The nearly 50 million surveillance cameras in the US could be used to police people as smart technology improves, according to …
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