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A new #malware is targeting #Discord users by modifying the Windows Discord client so that it is transformed into a backdoor and an information-stealing Trojan.

https://t.co/AbM1kzSttb #privacy #security #CyberSecurity

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A recent survey conducted of a random, representative sample of U.S. adults found that, in the past year, 79.2% of people adjusted #privacy-related settings on their social media accounts or reduced their social media usage.

https://t.co/ITjOrF8qCF #cybersecurity #socialmedia

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US Attorney General William Barr and counterparts in the UK and Australia have sent an open letter to #Facebook calling on it to rethink its plans to encrypt all messages on its platforms.

https://t.co/Obu66K7CBy #encryption

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A #Google contractor may have used questionable methods to collect facial scans, including targeting groups of homeless people and tricking college students who didn’t know they were being recorded.

https://t.co/zVhjXh3BcF #privacy

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Andrew Yang’s new #privacy proposal says that digital data should be treated as personal property.

Yang laid out a broad set of privacy rights for consumers. https://t.co/OrzO5ScU7U #Election2020 #YangGang

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A former #Yahoo software engineer pleaded guilty yesterday to hacking into the personal accounts of over 6,000 Yahoo users, in search of sexual images and videos.

https://t.co/V0HWI56aVU #hack #cybersecurity #privacy

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Researchers say an examination of today’s popular routers and NAS products, including Belkin, TP-Link, Asus, and Linksys, has revealed 125 vulnerabilities.

https://t.co/tIIFC7FfIG

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In a blog post, DoorDash confirmed that 4.9 million customers, delivery workers and merchants had their information stolen by hackers.

https://t.co/piWZIGppji #privacy #cybersecurity #security

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#Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says his company is developing a set of laws to regulate facial recognition technology that it plans to share with federal lawmakers.

https://t.co/8gfEL0F31s #privacy

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New software, called DeepPrivacy, anonymizes your face in real time by masking it with a combination of more than a million other people's faces.

https://t.co/HoDMVYC9j4 #privacy #deepfake

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The US Justice Department has sued #NSA leaker Edward Snowden in a bid to confiscate the proceeds from his new book.

https://t.co/eMEUH6YLts #Snowden #DOJ

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The 'Grant for the Web' looks to distribute $100 million over the next five years to projects with feasible plans for protecting #privacy while letting content creators profit online.

https://t.co/fUd71DoWi6

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HP printers collect large amounts of data about your printing projects, including metadata about your devices, and information about all the documents that you print, including timestamps, number of pages, and the application doing the printing.

https://t.co/8jFl0TF49d #privacy

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100s of #Android flashlight apps are requesting a large number of permissions on every install without providing the needed functionality in return.

Of the 937 apps analyzed, the average was 25 permissions per app, with seven apps requesting more than 70. https://t.co/l3BW9tv969

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In a recent blog post, #Facebook wrote that its features work better when they can “use precise location even when you’re not using the app to make sure that alerts and tools are accurate and personalized for you.”

https://t.co/V97FV5dMTE #privacy #location

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The Automatic Listening Exploitation Act would fine a company up to $40,000 for each recording made without a user’s permission.

https://t.co/MQREZsbzpA #privacy

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The surveillance state is already here and private citizens are purchasing and installing the infrastructure to expand it.

https://t.co/SVeBCMTIwM

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A federal judge ruled that a federal government database that compiles people deemed to be “known or suspected terrorists” violates the rights of American citizens who are on the watchlist.

https://t.co/cWwBj0lyjU #privacy #law #terrorism

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U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) suggested that Mark Zuckerberg should face a prison term for lying to American citizens about Facebook’s privacy lapses.

https://t.co/xdBqcb8GGm