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| Mark Scott / Politico: |
With GDPR's two-year anniversary on Monday, the Irish Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, amidst doubts about the agency's enforcement ability — Ireland's Data Protection Commission is under pressure to act, and act soon. — Facebook's European headquarters in Dublin.
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noyb.eu, CNET, Reuters, and EURACTIV.com
Tweets: @maxschrems, @rossjanderson, @markets, @kaminskimk, and @jason_kint
| Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg: |
Privacy advocate Max Schrems criticizes Irish data protection authority in an open letter for the slow pace of its probes into Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp — - Privacy activist Max Schrems criticizes Irish data authority — Open letter urges EU action amid frustration over long probes
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Politico, Silicon Republic, Computer Business Review, and Bloomberg
| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Computer scientist Ben Shneiderman argues against the move towards full robotic automation, saying such moves absolve humans of ethical responsibilities — A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.
Tweets: @cigitalgem, @edyson, @ctricot, @nytimesbusiness, and @jhagel
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Wikimedia's board votes to adopt a formal moderation process, with policies drafted by the end of 2020, to deal with harassment and other “toxic” behavior — Trustees say it hasn't done enough to stop abuse — Wikipedia plans to crack down on harassment and other “toxic” behavior with a new code of conduct.
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Wikimedia Foundation and MediaNama
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Jailbreaking team Unc0ver has released a tool that will jailbreak most versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5; the tool makes use of a 0-day flaw in the iOS kernel — The Unc0ver tool works on all versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5, the current release. — Over the years, Apple has made it prohibitively difficult …
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International Business Times, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, Engadget, iLounge, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, TechRadar.com, SlashGear, The Hacker News, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, MacRumors, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, Gizchina, Digital Trends, The Verge, BetaNews, Wccftech, Softpedia News, VICE, XDA Developers, iPhone Hacks, iClarified, Wccftech, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @pwn20wnd, @pwn20wnd, @greatfirechina, @malwarejake, @himynameisubik, @wired, and @lilyhnewman
| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Forescout Technologies sued Advent International last week, after the PE firm pulled out of a deal announced in Feb. to buy the IoT security company for $1.9B — (Reuters) - Forescout Technologies Inc (FSCT.O) sued Advent International Corp on Wednesday, after the private equity firm pulled …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says ~70% of all serious security bugs in Chrome, largely written in C/C++, are memory safety flaws, after analyzing 912 security bugs fixed since 2015 — Google software engineers are looking into ways of eliminating memory management-related bugs from Chrome.| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Telegram says it is withdrawing its appeal after a court decision backed the SEC and will no longer be fighting the ban on its blockchain token project — Telegram has thrown in the towel in its court battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will no longer … | Reuters: |
Israel limits the involvement of its security service in COVID-19 cellphone-tracking to special cases “where epidemiological investigation proves insufficient” — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli cabinet limited on Sunday the involvement of the Shin Bet security service … | Hayden Field / MIT Technology Review: |
Self-driving car companies, whose test fleets are grounded due to the pandemic, are finding new uses for old data through detailed data labeling and 3D mapping — With fleets out of commission, covid-19 left self-driving car and truck companies frozen in time. Now they're finding new life in old data.
Tweets: @haydenfield and @alexandr_wang
| Mary-Ann Russon / BBC: |
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre is conducting a new review into the impact of allowing Huawei telecom equipment to be used in British 5G networks — The UK government is conducting a new review into the impact of allowing Huawei telecoms equipment to be used in British 5G networks.| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
MasterClass, which offers celebrity-taught online classes for a $180 annual subscription, raises $100M Series E, at a reported valuation of $800M — MasterClass, a startup that sells celebrity-taught classes to people, has raised $100 million in a Series E round.Sponsor Posts
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Zoho:
Passkeys Week for a passwordless future: Learn how Zoho is embracing passkeys — Passkeys are the modern-day alternative authentication method that was introduced to replace traditional passwords for enhanced security and convenience.
Passkeys Week for a passwordless future: Learn how Zoho is embracing passkeys — Passkeys are the modern-day alternative authentication method that was introduced to replace traditional passwords for enhanced security and convenience.
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