TikTok found to have tracked Android users’ MAC addresses until late last year
Until late last year social video app TikTok was using an extra layer of encryption to conceal a tactic for tracking Android users via the MAC address of their device… »
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EU-US Privacy Shield is dead. Long live Privacy Shield
As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And so we arrive at the news, put out yesterday in the… »
Europe’s top court strikes down flagship EU-US data transfer mechanism
A highly anticipated ruling by Europe’s top court has just landed — striking down a flagship EU-US data flows arrangement called Privacy Shield. “The Court of Justice invalidates Decision 2016/1250… »
How tech is transforming the intelligence industry
Shay Hershkovitz Contributor Share on Twitter Shay Hershkovitz is a Senior Research Fellow at The Intelligence Methodology Research Center (IMRC). At a conference on the future challenges of intelligence organizations… »
UK to toughen telecoms security controls to shrink 5G risks
Amid ongoing concerns about security risks posed by the involvement of Chinese tech giant Huawei in 5G supply, the U.K. government has published a review of the telecoms supply chain,… »
EU-US Privacy Shield legal showdown now set for July 9
A legal challenge to a data transfer mechanism that’s used by thousands of companies to authorize taking European citizens’ personal data to the US for processing has been delayed. As… »
Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech
Responding to Elizabeth Warren’s call to regulate and break up some of the nation’s largest technology companies, the venture capitalists that invest in technology companies are advising the presidential hopeful… »
Each firm can claim up to £100,000 from food and environment ministry for losses due to trade deal Seafood exporters hit by Brexit red tape and delays will be able… »
Tribune OnlineWithout new constitution, there can be no equity, fairness, justice in Nigeria —Senator Jang Senator Jonah Jang is a one-time military governor of the defunct Gongola and Benue states… »
