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Unsecured Social Data database leaks 235 million public profiles from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube

Updated on Jan 29, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Researchers from Comparitech have discovered yet another unsecured database which has leaked 235 million records to the world. The records include hundreds of millions from Instagram, forty some million from…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Social Media

New Jersey Supreme Court rules that passcodes aren’t protected by Fifth Amendment

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that passcodes aren't protected by the Fifth Amendment. States around the country, and other countries around the world, continue to rule differently on…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

How the government legally tracks your smartphone use with the Anomaly Six SDK

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Caleb Chen

A Virginia based government contracting firm called Anomaly Six LLC has been revealed to be inserting a proprietary software development kit (SDK) into over five hundred mobile apps then sharing…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

China expands Great Firewall to block HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 by Caleb Chen

The Great Firewall of China is getting longer. Chinese censors upgraded the GFW to be able to block HTTPS traffic that uses TLS 1.3 and ESNI. We know about this…

Categories: Censorship, Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

The Garmin hack could have been a disastrous, large scale privacy breach

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Garmin recently suffered a ransomware attack that crippled services for days. The ransomware attack could have been a cover for a more targeted attack on individuals around the world. This…

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Study confirms companies with poor privacy practices are more likely to suffer data breach

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 by Caleb Chen

A new whitepaper by Osana confirms what many of us already suspected: that companies with poor privacy practices are 80% more likely to suffer a data breach. To back up…

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Free VPNs based in Hong Kong caught logging

Updated on Jan 24, 2024 by Caleb Chen

Several free VPN apps based in Hong Kong logged internet activity from millions of users then left that data unsecured on the internet for anyone to find. This batch of…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, VPN

Privacy-loving EU building massive travel surveillance system for visitors that will affect billions of people

Updated on Jan 31, 2024 by Glyn Moody

As this blog has noted, for all its faults, the European Union's GDPR represents one of the most important attempts to protect digital privacy. Although it concerns the EU and…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

Huawei 5G banned in the United Kingdom; must be removed by 2027

Updated on Jan 30, 2024 by Caleb Chen

The United Kingdom (UK) is banning telecommunications companies from using Huawei 5G equipment. Following sanctions put on Huawei by the United States, United Kingdom Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden told the…

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Private Internet Access shuts down VPN servers in Hong Kong due to new national security law

Updated on Jul 14, 2020 by Private Internet Access

The Hong Kong VPN exit node will return as a geo-located region. Denver, CO, July 14th 2020 -- Effective immediately, Private Internet Access (PIA) is wiping and shutting down our…

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