Twitter filed a federal lawsuit to block an order by the US government demanding that it reveal who is behind an account opposed to President Donald Trump's tough immigration policies. Twitter cited freedom of speech as a basis for not turning over records about the account.
The account is claimed to be the work of at least one federal immigration employee, according to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court. The acronym US CIS refers to US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the account describes itself as "immigration resistance." Trump has vowed to build a wall along the US border with Mexico and has promised to deport millions of illegal immigrants.
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Read moreAmber Rudd has called for the police and intelligence agencies to be given access to WhatsApp and other encrypted messaging services to thwart future terror attacks, prompting opposition politicians and civil liberties groups to say her demand was unrealistic and disproportionate.
The home secretary said it was “completely unacceptable” that the government could not read messages protected by end-to-end encryption and said she had summoned leaders of technology companies to a meeting to discuss what to do. Rudd refused to rule out passing new legislation to tackle encrypted messaging if she did not get what she wanted.
Read moreSocial media companies Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter Inc will have to amend their terms of service for European users within a month or face the risk of fines, a European Commission official said on Friday. U.S. technology companies have faced tight scrutiny in Europe for the way they do business, from privacy to how quickly they remove illegal or threatening content.
The Commission and European consumer protection authorities will "take action to make sure social media companies comply with EU consumer rules," the official said. Germany, the most populous EU state, said this week it planned a new law calling for social networks such as Facebook to remove slanderous or threatening online postings quickly or face fines of up to 50 million euros ($53 million).
Read moreAs a society, we are creating more data than ever before meaning we're at risk of running out of traditional storage. As a result, there is a race to create new ways to store our photos and files.
Although the concept of storing such data on DNA isn't new, a pair of researchers has now used the technique to store an operating system, movie, and other files on biological molecules. "DNA has the potential to provide large-capacity information storage," Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski. "Here we report a storage strategy, called DNA Fountain, that is highly robust and approaches the information capacity per nucleotide".
Read moreEuropean Union data protection watchdogs said on Monday they were still concerned about the privacy settings of Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system despite the U.S. company announcing changes to the installation process.
The watchdogs, a group made up of the EU's 28 authorities responsible for enforcing data protection law, wrote to Microsoft last year expressing concerns about the default installation settings of Windows 10 and users' apparent lack of control over the company's processing of their data. The group - referred to as the Article 29 Working Party -asked for more explanation of Microsoft's processing of personal data for various purposes, including advertising.
Read moreIntel, Uber and IoT company Aeris have joined forces in an effort aimed at fostering industry cooperation when it comes to building safety features into autonomous vehicles and the systems that support them. Today the group, which goes by the name Future of Automotive Security Technology Research, issued a manifesto explaining its intentions.
The manifesto hopes to galvanize the nascent and sometimes balkanized autonomous vehicle industry. It’s call to action is to infuse security into the emerging and diverse autonomous vehicle supply chain comprised of automakers, component manufacturers, software engineers and cloud providers.
Read moreA House bill was introduced Tuesday that could accelerate the federal government’s involvement in regulating automobile cybersecurity.
The Security and Privacy in Your Car Study Act of 2017 calls on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to lead a study of necessary security standards that could be included in a law governing cars built in the US or imported for sale. A similar SPY Car Act of 2015 introduced by Sen. Edward Markey was much more prescriptive of the NHTSA in securing electronic controls and driving data collected by vehicle systems. This week’s bill calls for the NHTSA to study the issue alongside the Federal Trade Commission.
Read moreAn alarming number of Android VPNs are providing a decidedly false sense of security to users, especially those living in areas where communication is censored or technology is crucial to the privacy and physical security.
A study published recently identified a number of shortcomings common to high percentages of 238 mobile VPN apps analyzed by a handful of researchers. Users downloading and installing these apps expecting secure communication and connections to private networks are instead using apps that lack encryption, are infected with malware, intercept TLS traffic, track user activity, and manipulate HTTP traffic.
Read moreGoogle has announced that it will ban users of its Gmail service from sending or receiving attachments containing JavaScript. The move is the latest in a long line of attempts to out-manoeuvre hackers and other ne'er-do-wells using attachments in phishing attacks and other sorts of spam.
In reality, however, the age of instant messaging, cloud storage and collaboration features means that there isn't really any need for sending attachments by mail in the first place, and given that even with legitimate intent, they create multiple copies which clog up servers, businesses still operating this way need to rethink their approach anyway.
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