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Category: Privacy

Posted on 26 September 202226 September 2022

Here is the fallout for Indian privacy…

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I have reported previously on India’s new laws that will weaken the privacy offered to users of VPN technology: The new laws require the VPN vendors to record identifiable information about the users, and then make that information available to organisations authorised by the government, so effectively removing privacy from …

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Posted on 23 September 202222 September 2022

More privacy issues for Twitter

Following the revelations by Peiter Zatko, the former head of security at Twitter: Is Twitter a decade behind in its security practices? – Smart Thinking Solutions It now emerges that one of the essential steps in a Twitter password reset – logging out of any and all devices already logged …

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Posted on 22 September 202221 September 2022

The Online Safety Bill

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The Conservatives having spent the summer choosing our new Prime Minister, will let the MPs return to work and The Online Safety Bill will be back in the House. I have written about this bill and its ups and downs a lot. I like the protection it gives to the …

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Posted on 20 September 202220 September 2022

Travelling to the US?

I have given this advice to a number of clients who were heading for the United States, for both business and pleasure – do not carry any confidential data on your devices, laptops, phones, USB drives etc, as US Border Security can copy those devices without a warrant. If you …

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Posted on 14 September 202214 September 2022

Is Twitter a decade behind in its security practices?

This is what a recently fired, Twitter employee is claiming. It could be sour grapes, but Peiter Zatko, the former head of security at Twitter is making these claims in sworn testimony. Twitter whistleblower tells Senate of ‘egregious’ security failings by company | Twitter | The Guardian With the number …

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