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Quantum Internet: The Invisible Network That Could Make Every Password Obsolete — WhatIfScience
12+ hour, 52+ min ago (27+ words) Most technological revolutions arrive with plenty of noise. The internet came with buzzing modems and …...
WhatsApp and Signal Leak User Location Through a Flaw That Cannot Be Fixed
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (427+ words) Researchers at the University of Vienna have found a fundamental flaw in WhatsApp and Signal. It lets anyone track where a person is with nothing but their phone number, and there is no complete fix, PCMag reports. The weak spot…...
Kill the cookie banner! Coalition of companies, NGOs and scientists calls for EU abolition of cookie banners
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (257+ words) notebookcheck.net Yet cookie banners are actually completely unnecessary. When the European Commission introduced its controversial “Digital Omnibus” package, it proposed introducing automatic signals instead. In simple terms, users would set their privacy preferences once, eliminating the need for banners…...
Comma Compliance Open-Sources the Android App That Archives Employee Text Messages
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (373+ words) Security teams can inspect the source code for Comma's Android capture component before deploying it across a managed fleet. SAN FRANCISCO, September 10, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Comma Compliance published the source code for its Android software that captures employee text messages for…...
How Encrypted Messages Become Evidence in Federal Cases
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (723+ words) A federal agent takes the stand and says the defendant used Signal. The jury hears that before they hear a word about what was actually said. Ten years ago that sequence would have raised eyebrows. Now it shows up in…...
Ring Is Changing the Way It Encrypts Your Videos. Here’s What You Need to Know.
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (529+ words) Rachel Cericola is a writer covering smart home. In addition to testing hundreds of smart devices, she has also tested dozens of ice cream sandwiches. TAKE makes it possible for you to keep your Ring videos encrypted and secured while…...
60% OTT users report cancellation issues: Survey
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (734+ words) The findings have renewed concerns over so-called “dark patterns” — interface designs or business practices that can influence consumers into making decisions they may not otherwise make. LocalCircles said the survey covered more than 118,000 OTT users across 324 districts. The organisation has…...
Explaining COPPA
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (905+ words) COPPA: the 1998 US statute barring online services from collecting personal data from under-13s without verifiable parental consent, ad identifiers included. The second category is any general-audience operator with actual knowledge that it is collecting personal information from a child under…...
Data Localisation In The Public Sector: Where Should Government Data Reside?
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (309+ words) As the South African government accelerates its adoption of cloud computing, AI and other data-intensive technologies, one question is becoming increasingly important: where does government data actually reside and where should it reside? The answer is not always as straightforward…...
Mask, Hash, Tokenize, or Encrypt? Choosing the Right PII Protection for Your Pipeline
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (241+ words) Part 2 of 3 — the decision framework: what each technique actually trades away, the join-key dilemma, and why your hashed emails are still personal data. Tagged with dataengineering, security, dataprivacy, gdpr....