Category
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that TikTok can be banned in the U.S. over national security concerns, upholding a federal law requiring the popular social media app to shed its Chinese ownership to keep operating, The Wall Street Journal reported. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said Congress has the
President Joe Biden issued an order blocking a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining firm from owning land near a Wyoming nuclear missile base, calling its proximity to the base a “national security risk” The Associated Press reported.
President Joe Biden will issue an executive order that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans’ personal data to “countries of concern” including Russia and China. The order specifically targets the bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial, biometric, health and other personally identifying information, Engadget reported. During a briefing with reporters, a senior administration official said that the sale of
DuckDuckGo has added browser updates that sync your bookmarks and passwords across devices. Here are some of newly added features: Now live: Sync bookmarks, passwords, and Email Protection settings between DuckDuckGo browsers on phones, tablets, and computers, privately and securely. Our new Sync & Backup feature is designed with your privacy and security in mind. You don’t need to create
Tesla has said that insider wrongdoing was to blame for a data breach affecting more than 75,000 company employees, TechCrunch reported. Tesla, the electric car maker owned by Elon Musk, said in a data breach notice filed with Maine’s attorney general that an investigation had found that two former employees leaked more than 75,000 individuals’ personal information to a foreign
WhatsApp posted “New Security Features: Account Protect, Device Verification, Automatic Security Codes”. From the blog post: At WhatsApp, we believe that your messages should be private and secure as an in-person conversation. Protecting your personal messages with default end-to-end encryption is the foundation of that security, and we’ll never stop building features to give you extra layers of privacy, and
Huawei, ZTE, Hikvision, Hytera and Dahua all sell telecommunications equipment and video surveillance technology into the United States, but many of their future security cams and radio hardware will no longer be welcome, The Verge reported. According to The Verge, the Federal Communications Commission has just announced it will no longer authorize some of their equipment - which is a