Tag: Ron Wyden
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Widespread Cybersecurity Problems Across Intelligence Community, Claims US Senator Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has asked Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe to explain what steps he is taking to improve the …
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Senate narrowly rejects plan to require a warrant for Americans’ browsing data
Senators have narrowly rejected a bipartisan amendment that would have required the government first obtain a warrant before accessing …
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Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant
“The Patriot Act should be repealed in its entirety, set on fire and buried in the ground,” Evan Greer, the deputy director of Fight …
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Lawmakers Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping
Crooks have stolen tens of millions of dollars and other valuable commodities from thousands of consumers via “SIM swapping,” a …
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Senators Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping
Crooks have stolen tens of millions of dollars and other valuable commodities from thousands of consumers via “SIM swapping,” a …
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Mind your own business! CEOs who misuse data could end up in jail
CEOs who lie about misusing consumers’ data could face up to 20 years in jail under a new piece of US legislation proposed last week. The …
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Amazon Web Services finds no ‘significant issues’ at other companies allegedly breached by Paige Thompson
If the alleged Capital One hacker also took information from dozens of other companies, as investigators suspect, then Amazon Web Services …
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If Uncle Sam could quit using insecure .zip files to swap info across the ‘net, that would be great, says Silicon Ron Wyden
Influential US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is not happy about Uncle Sam’s employees using insecure .zip files and other archive formats to …
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Senator asks Department of Justice if it can keep a lid on its software exploits
In recent years, Department of Justice agencies have quietly acquired and deployed hacking tools in support of their law enforcement …
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Maine inches closer to shutting down ISP pay-for-privacy schemes
Maine residents are one step closer to being protected from the unapproved use, sharing, and sale of their data by Internet service …
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US Congress proposes comprehensive federal data privacy legislation—finally
The United States might be the only country of its size—both in economy and population—to lack a comprehensive data privacy law …
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Senators Call on FCC To Investigate T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint Selling Location Data to Bounty Hunters
On Tuesday, Motherboard revealed that major American telcos T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint are selling customer location data of users in an …
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