Family Safety App Touting Digital Security Leaves Its Own Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk Former employees said Life360 executives knew about security gaps By: Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan The family safety app Life360 doesn’t have some standard guardrails to prevent a hacker from taking over an account and accessing sensitive information, The Markup has…
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Fifth Circuit opinion in United Airlines vaccine mandate case conjures fiery dissent
If there was a “GOAT” (“greatest of all time”) for blistering court opinion dissents, one in the Fifth Circuit this week would likely win any poll. Daniel Conrad reports: A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ unpublished, per curiam decision rarely stirs the pot. But the Fifth Circuit’s decision Thursday in a lawsuit between United Airlines…
Spyware dealer who sold WhatsApp-hacking tech pleads guilty
Zack Whittaker reports: A Mexican businessman admitted in federal court this week to selling spyware and hacking tools from Italy and Israel to customers in the United States and Mexico. The Justice Department said Carlos Guerrero, who owns several businesses in the U.S. and Mexico, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell signal jammers, Wi-Fi interception tools, IMSI…
Facial recognition firm Clearview AI tells investors it’s seeking massive expansion beyond law enforcement
Drew Harwell reports: The facial recognition company Clearview AI is telling investors it is on track to have 100 billion facial photos in its database within a year, enough to ensure “almost everyone in the world will be identifiable,” according to a financial presentation from December obtained by The Washington Post. Those images — equivalent to…