May 18, 2020

Senate renews warrantless collection of web histories

The government can keep on surveilling your online life without a warrant. An amendment to ban it failed by just one vote.

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April 15, 2020

Signal: We’ll be eaten alive by EARN IT Act’s anti-encryption wolves

The Big Bad Wolves haven't blown the house down but did come up with a way to "hold the three little pigs responsible for being delicious," Signal said.

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March 16, 2020

Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones

Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.

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February 21, 2020

Washington state Senate passes bill to rein in facial recognition

The bill now goes to the House, which has a stiffer competing bill pending that would call for a 3.5 year moratorium.

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January 30, 2020

Employers can’t force you to get microchipped, Indiana reps say

The US state wants to make sure employers don't "overstep their bounds" by imposing mandatory employee microchipping.

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January 29, 2020

Let’s make ransomware MORE illegal, says Maryland

… with a clumsily worded proposed bill that wouldn't protect researchers.

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January 27, 2020

New York wants to ban taxpayer-funded ransomware payments

One of the proposed bills would set up a $5m fund to help small towns upgrade their systems and bolster their security.

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October 03, 2019

No federal privacy law will make it in the US this year, sources say

Without one, the companies that collect our data will likely face compliance with California's take-no-prisoners law, in effect 1 January 2020.

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September 17, 2019

Robocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day

According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls.

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