Sam Altman called for international regulation and "speedy incident reporting" at the U.N. on the same day Australia's prime minister said OpenAI took too long to disclose a breach.
Militaries are leaning on AI software for surveillance and targeting.
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The Trump administration is reportedly moving to ban TP-Link routers, but experts say they're no less secure than other devices.
Once created, a digital ID system will prove catnip to politicians who want to track where we go, online and off.
The Department of Homeland Security restored a $2 million contract with Paragon, maker of the surveillance tool Graphite, despite earlier civil liberties concerns.
Unintended—but entirely predictable—consequences abound!
Popular encryption apps are probably secure if government officials rely on them.
If enacted, the order would weaken digital security for Apple users throughout the U.K.
The reported order from Britain's Home Office is further proof that governments pose a greater privacy risk than corporations.
A new crop of restrictive laws faces a friendly reception in the courts but ongoing public resistance.
Proponents call it modernization, but watchdogs see a path to censorship.
A backdoor for anybody is a backdoor for everybody.
Cyber intrusions, arson, bombings, and other mayhem feature in the conflict between West and East.
The 9th Circuit determined that forcibly mashing a suspect's thumb into his phone to unlock it was akin to fingerprinting him at the police station.
No matter who wins between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, chaos is likely to ensue.
Rockstar Games told a U.K. court that it spent $5 million to recover from the hack. Is that worth the rest of a teenager's life?
How online “child protection” measures could make child and adult internet users more vulnerable to hackers, identity thieves, and snoops.
The loss of public key encryption service providers would make us all more vulnerable, both physically and financially.
Photos and information you store on iCloud will be safer from hackers, spies, and the government.
We can make our voting systems just a bit dumber and a whole lot safer.
WhatsApp and iMessage are not as private as you might think.
Innovation should be more important than regulation.
Breaking encryption technologies always makes us less safe, no matter what the justification.
An onslaught of antitrust and data-security crackdowns have threatened the country's biggest ride-sharing platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and messaging services.
The ION project promises to give individual users absolute control over their online identity and privacy.
She was sentenced to more than five years for revealing how Russia tried to hack the 2016 election.
Prosecutors like to use the law against people who clearly weren't engaged in hacking. The Court is trying to rein them in.
Government surveillance doesn't just violate privacy rights; it’s a major security risk.
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Let's not weaken cybersecurity even more.
The National Security Agency arranged for security systems to be secretly compromised. Then the Chinese government allegedly found its way in.
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
The costly fight over a “right to repair” proposal has led to a lot of cybersecurity fearmongering.
He is expected to be extradited to face the charges he knew were coming, which inspired his past few years of international exile.
We don’t trust state-controlled companies in China. Would it be different if we did more of the controlling?
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This isn't a bill about fighting child porn. Don't fall for it.
A new, terrible anti-encryption bill with a twist
The very idea that our intelligence agencies could keep encryption bypasses secret is absurd.
She’s nearly three years into a five-year sentence for releasing classified documents showing Russian attempts to hack U.S. election systems.
Somebody tell the FBI and Congress.
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Don’t worry—America’s ruling factions still disagree over who should be in charge of the snooping.
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