James Vincent reports: Facebook’s parent company Meta is heading into another political battle over the planned introduction of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in its Messenger chat platform. The UK’s home secretary, Priti Patel, makes this clear in an op-ed for Tory mouthpiece The Telegraph this week, saying it would be a “grotesque betrayal” if the company didn’t consider issues of child…
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Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse
Joe Mullin, a policy analyst at EFF, writes: Internet users’ private messages, files, and photos of everyday people are increasingly being examined by tech companies, which check the data against government databases. While this is not a new practice, the public is being told this massive scanning should extend to nearly every reach of their…
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies
By Donie O’Sullivan, Clare Duffy and Brian Fung, CNN Business Video by John General, Zach Wasser and Logan Whiteside, CNN Business Portraits by Sarah Silbiger for CNN Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive…
NaviStone on Hook Again for Tracking Consumer Website Activity
Samantha Hawkins reports: Harriet Carter Gifts Inc. and NaviStone Inc. once again face liability for tracking consumer activity on Harriet Carter’s website, after the Third Circuit held Tuesday that the tracking might have violated Pennsylvania’s electronic surveillance law. Ashley Popa sued Harriet Carter after learning that marketing service NaviStone tracked her activities across the store’s…