Laura Dobberstein reports: NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware-for-governments keeps returning to the headlines thanks to revelations such as its use against Spain’s prime minister and senior British officials. But there’s one nation where outrage about Pegasus has been constant for nearly a year and shows little sign of abating: India. Read more at TheRegister.
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Apple, Google, Microsoft throw weight behind push for biometric logins
Edvard Pettersson reports: Apple, Google and Microsoft have joined an effort to eliminate the dozens of cumbersome — and risky — passwords people need to access the many websites and apps they depend on for services, work and recreation. The three tech giants announced their support Thursday for a common “passkey” standard created by the…
Data Broker SafeGraph Stops Selling Location Data of People Who Visit Planned Parenthood
Joseph Cox reports: SafeGraph, a location data broker, has stopped offering data related to Planned Parenthood and other similar family planning centers after Motherboard found it was possible to buy information on how many people were visiting the facilities, where they came from, and where they went afterwards, something that experts saw as highly concerning in the…
Ola Customer Sends Takedown Notice to Company For Publishing Telemetric Data on Social Media
News18 reports: A customer has sent a takedown notice to Ola Electric for publishing the electric two-scooter’s telemetry data on social media, after the e-scooter met with an accident in Guwahati, injuring the rider. Balwant Singh from Guwahati had tweeted on April 15 that his son had met with an accident “due to fault in…