by Media Release | Oct 8, 2021 | Facebook, Privacy, Security
Originally posted at Defending Ed On Sept. 9, 2021, Fairfax County Public Schools signed “Amendment 2,” a new agreement to pay $2,445,300 to Panorama Education to collect confidential data on “all” 180,000+ K-12 Fairfax County Public School children, a $599,640...
by Media Release | Oct 8, 2021 | Facebook, Privacy, Security
Originally posted at Tech Crunch by Steve Dent Facebook Wants to ‘Normalize’ the Mass Scraping of Personal Data Internal documents published by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently revealed that Facebook allowed VIPs to break its rules and that it was...
by Media Release | Oct 1, 2021 | FBI, Privacy, Security, Spyware
Originally posted at The Intercept by Sam Richards UNTIL NOW, the Bartonville, Texas, company Hawk Analytics and its product CellHawk have largely escaped public scrutiny. CellHawk has been in wide use by law enforcement, helping police departments, the FBI, and...
by Media Release | Sep 30, 2021 | Privacy, Security
Originally posted at Wired by Joseph Cox A letter to Congress shared with Motherboard shows that the US National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other members of the Intelligence Community use ad blockers on their networks as a security...
by Media Release | Sep 27, 2021 | HowTo, Privacy, Security
Originally posted at Wired by Matt Burgess THERE ARE TWO big reasons why people get hacked. Flaws in software and flaws in human behavior. While there’s not much you can do about coding vulnerabilities, you can change your own behavior and bad habits. WIRED UK This...
by Media Release | Sep 22, 2021 | Politics, Privacy, Security
Originally posted at The Guardian by Andrew Roth Supporters of the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have accused Google and Apple of capitulating to Kremlin pressure after the two tech companies deleted his tactical voting app from their online stores....
