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Considering deleting FaceApp? It won't be easy to get your data back
""[When] you delete an app, it just means you can't use it anymore," said Jen King, Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School's…
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Facebook Ad Library API had “major bugs” during EU elections
"“Our documentation of the broken API provides Facebook [with] a clear roadmap to make the necessary improvements to deliver a functioning and useful API,”…
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Equifax endangered millions. It’s now hoping you won’t seek $125 in compensation
"Jen King, director consumer privacy for Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, said she doesn’t expect Congress to act on a federal privac…
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Fox News Faces Copyright Suit Over Ocasio-Cortez Photo
"Annemarie Bridy, professor of law at the University of Idaho, said in a direct message via Twitter, “At first glance, it does not appear that Fox has a cr…
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William Barr Despises Your Power to Keep Him from Snooping on You
Attorney General Bill Barr gave a speech yesterday at Fordham that revived the encryption debate in the U.S. after a relatively quiet period. Since the departur…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Attorney General Barr fires up the encryption debate
"“That shows disregard for the data security of citizens and really misapprehends how indispensable strong encryption is to Americans and to the economy of…
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Barr Revives Encryption Debate, Calling on Tech Firms to Allow for Law Enforcement
"Mr. Barr is assuming that the negative impacts of encryption on law enforcement investigations “far outweigh encryption’s benefits for protecting individu…
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Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data
"Quitting Google is a major undertaking that may not be possible, said Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University.…
5 ways to protect yourself from cybercrime
High-profile data breaches at companies like British Airways and Marriott get a lot of media coverage, but cybercriminals are increasingly going after community…
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US attorney general says encryption creates security risk
"Gail Kent, Facebook’s global public policy lead on security, recently said that allowing the government’s ability to gain access to encrypted communicatio…
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Facebook will have to pay a record-breaking fine for violating users’ privacy. But the FTC wanted more.
"“It could be curtailed by a court decision, which might come down eight years down the line,” said Omer Tene, vice president at the International Associat…
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Equifax to pay up to $700M in data breach settlement
"Security experts said there's really no way to know, especially in the absence of third-party validation. "You cannot determine with certainty th…