Electronic Frontier Foundation – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:27:51 +0000

President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history. The White House memo, which also suspended clearances for other security professionals at Krebs’s employer SentinelOne, comes as CISA is facing huge funding and staffing cuts.

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October 23, 2024 admin

The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 11:30:18 +0000

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites.

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July 27, 2022 admin

In post-Roe US, experts share how to keep your data private

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:58:50 +0000

As the US reconfigures its rules on abortion after the overturning of Roe v Wade, our podcast guests explain how to keep your data private.

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July 20, 2022 admin

Ring shares data with police without consent (but it’s in good faith), says Amazon

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:12:11 +0000

Amazon’s Ring is in hot water after revealing in a letter to Senator Ed Markey that it shared data without permission 11 times this year.

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July 18, 2022 admin

Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data: Lock and Code S03E15

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:17:26 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss how law enforcement can now use your data, ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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November 26, 2019 admin

Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:30:10 +0000

Beyond the usual arguments on this subject, we wanted to ask the question: Are there any security risks we need to be worried about if the United States were to switch to ‘Healthcare for All’ policies?

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November 19, 2019 admin

Malwarebytes teams up with security vendors and advocacy groups to launch Coalition Against Stalkerware

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Today, Malwarebytes is announcing its participation in a joint effort to stop invasive digital surveillance: the Coalition Against Stalkerware.

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Tags: Coalition Against Stalkerware EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation European Network for the Work with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence G Data kaspersky Malwarebytes monitor monitoring app monitoring applications monitoring apps National Network to End Domestic Violence NNEDV Operation Safe Escape stalkerware WEISSER Ring

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September 19, 2019 admin

CEOs offer their own view of a US data privacy law

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 15:54:43 +0000

Should this proposed privacy law come into effect, if a company violates that law, you, your neighbor, and your family do not have the right to sue them.

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