When Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkish government took reprisals against hundreds of thousands of people suspected to have been involved in the failed coup of 2016, one of the criteria they used for whom to round up for indefinite detention as well as myriad human rights abuses (including torture) was whether people had a cookie on their computers set by a 1x1 tracking pixel served by Bylock, which the Erdogan regime says is evidence of support of exiled opposition leader Fethullah Gülen

One of Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges has revealed that it’s lost nearly $400 million in a security breach. Coincheck says that it has restricted deposits and withdrawals for a cryptocurrency called NEM, and Bloomberg reports that 500 million NEM tokens have been sent from the company “illicitly,” and that it’s not sure how.

Blockchain transactions are recorded forever and indelibly, and that means that all the Bitcoin transactions on early Tor hidden service marketplaces like Silk Road are on permanent, public display; because many people who made these transactions later went on to link those Bitcoin wallets with their real identities, those early deals are now permanently associated with their public, identifiable selves

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has officially gained agency-wide access to a nationwide license plate recognition database, according to a contract finalized earlier this month. The system gives the agency access to billions of license plate records and new powers of real-time location tracking, raising significant concerns from civil libertarians.

As Uber goes, so does Lyft, apparently. The ride-hailing company says it’s investigating whether some of its employees abused access clearances and looked into customers’ information, with one saying it went on for “too long.”

Apple gifted us with new Animoji, more insight into battery health, and an update for ARKit yesterday with its release of iOS 11.3. Buried in its update notes, the company also says it now supports Advanced Mobile Location, which automatically sends a user's location to emergency services when someone calls.

AML isn't currently supported in the US, but iOS users in the UK, Belgium, New Zealand, Sweden, Lithuania, and some parts of Lower Austria can take advantage

Last year, Korean rules regulating abusive practices by online services went into effect, under terms set out in the "Amended Enforcement Decree of the Telecommunications Business Act Now Effective, Specifically Classifying and Regulating Certain Prohibited Acts of Telecom Service Providers." (more

Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft collect your voice data to improve their AI systems. Here's how to delete everything

Facebook’s ongoing attempt to reckon with its impact on civil life continued today with the company acknowledging that its platform is not always good for democracy.

Facebook today announced major changes to their 'newsfeed' which 2 billion people use monthly. Now, Facebook plans to begin asking each user to rank their trust in various news organizations.

Technology and our increasing demand for security have put us all under surveillance. Is privacy becoming just a memory?

Amazon has patented designs for a wristband that can precisely track where warehouse employees are placing their hands and use vibrations to nudge them in a different direction.

988. Noch ist das Internet ein Netzwerk vor allem für Universitäten und große Forschungseinrichtungen. Aber auch mit PC und Akustikkoppler kann man sich über das Telefon in Großrechner einwählen. Eine Hackerszene entwickelt sich und macht sich auf zu weltweiten Datenreisen, informiert sich über die neusten Erkenntnisse zu AIDS und deckt Schwachstellen in Computersystemen auf.

The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) "handles huge amounts of personal data without proper safeguards ... 'major improvement' is needed to reduce risks in systems that powered aid for over 82 million people", according to an internal audit (at least): https://t.co/W4G7kMoqaX

A private company has captured 2.2 billion photos of license plates in cities throughout America. It stores them in a database, tagged with the location where they were taken. And it is selling that data.

More than 17 million Brits were hit by cybercrime in the past year, meaning the nation, which accounts for less than 1% of the global population, makes up almost 2% of the 978 million global victims of cybercrime and almost 4% of the global losses.

Lange vor den Tech-Größen konnte man Personen über Gesprochenes erkennen – das wirft Fragen zu smarten Lautsprechern auf

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a leak of credentials and private data in Air France's mobile application for Android. This mobile application is used by customers of Air France to handle their flight reservations, boarding passes and other information.

Ist Signal wirklich besser als Telegram? Sollte man gleich zu Threema wechseln? Wie sicher ist das Messenger-Flaggschiff WhatsApp, wo es doch zur "Datenkrake" Facebook gehört? Klar ist, beim Thema Sicherheit von Messenger-Apps herrscht oft große Verunsicherung bei Nutzern – nicht zuletzt aufgrund permanenter Meldungen über immer neue Schwachstellen bei den Apps, wie kürzlich bei WhatsApp. Die meisten nutzen ohnehin mehrere Messenger parallel: einerseits, weil sie nicht wissen, welcher der sicherste ist, andererseits, weil der Freundeskreis sich bereits auf bestimmte Apps festgelegt hat.