The New U.S. House Version of KOSA Doesn’t Fix Its Biggest Problems
By Jason Kelley and Aaron Mackey An amended version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) that is being considered this week in the U.S….
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Credit Card Processor Data Breach Exposes Personal Information Of 1.7 Million Customers
By Tyler Durden Credit card processing service Slim CD, popular in the U.S. and Canada, has revealed a massive data breach that exposed the personal…
10 Things You Should Do to Keep the Government from Tracking You
By Milan Adams, Preppgroup Back in 1949 the world was still recovering from World War II. The Korean War wouldn’t start for another year, but…
The Foreboding UN Convention on Cybercrime
By Cecilie Jilkova The UN committee approved the text of the Convention on Combating Cybercrime. Human rights organizations and information technology experts have called it a…
CBDCs Will Allow Police To Collect, Store Personal Data For Surveillance State, IMF Paper Reveals
This article was originally published by Ethan Huff at Natural News. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report recently that warns about the very serious privacy…
As Durov Hits Out At French Authorities, Telegram Quietly Revamps Moderation Rules
By Tyler Durden In his first public statements since his arrest by France on Aug. 24 at Paris’ Le Bourget airport, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov…
School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety
By Bill Budington Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the…
Planned New European Travel Restrictions Follow US Precedents and Pressure
By Edward Hasbrouck Citizens of the USA and some other most-favored nations have long been able to travel to many European countries for tourism or…
Is the Proposed “Civilian Registry” of Havana Syndrome Victims a Double Edged Blade?
By Janet Phelan In what is being framed as an effort to force “agencies like the FBI to investigate civilian domestic cases, and to inform…
The French Detention: Why We’re Watching the Telegram Situation Closely
By David Greene and Eva Galperin EFF is closely monitoring the situation in France in which Telegram’s CEO Pavel Durov was charged with having committed…
Whether Through Biden, Harris, or Trump — Digital IDs Are Coming to America
By Derrick Broze The Biden Administration is considering an Executive Order for digital IDs, picking up where Donald Trump’s left off during his time in…
The Hidden Cybersecurity Risks of Internet of Bodies (IoB) Healthcare Devices
The following details the risks of Internet of Bodies-connected healthcare devices and backs up many of the concerns I wrote about in my article from…
Lawsuits Pile Up After Company Confirms Social Security Numbers Were Hacked
Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ZeroHedge) More lawsuits have been filed against background check company National Public Data (NPD) after it…
Your Child’s Smart Toy is a Data Scientist — Here’s How It’s Quietly Watching and What it’s Learning
By Study Finds Remember when toys were simple? A stuffed animal was just a stuffed animal, and the only data it collected was the occasional…