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As the coronavirus continues to kill thousands every day, tech companies are seizing the opportunity to extend their reach and power. By Naomi Klein Republished with permission from The Intercept For a few fleeting times during the New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday 6 May, the …

Recently liberated documents exposed the FBI has for years secretly challenged vast amounts of Americans’ customer and financial information from the largest U.S. credit agencies. The FBI regularly uses these legal powers — known as national protection letters — to compel credit giants to turn over non-content information, such as …

Identity fraud is justification for collecting photos from drivers’ licences and passports but critics say plan too invasive If you’ve had a driver’s licence photo or passport photo taken in Australia in the past few years, it’s likely your face will end up in a massive brand-new national network the …

Children are spending an alarming amount of occasion watching media on various screens and machines, but among other issues, Google-owned YouTube is emerging as one of the biggest threats to their well-being. In fact, Google must pay a record $ 170 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission …

FaceApp: Is The Russian Face-Aging App A Danger To Your Privacy ? Forbes Despite having gone viral in 2017, FaceApp is doing so again, but do customers need to worry about their privacy? Perhaps not, according to researchers. Read more: forbes.com

Newly released documents disclose the National Security Agency improperly compiled Americans’ call records for a second time, only months after the agency was forced to purge hundreds of millions of collected calls and text records it unlawfully obtained. The document, obtained by the American Civil Autonomy Union, shows the NSA …

If you haven’t heard about VPNs then you must have had your head in the sand, because they are seriously big news these days. VPNs are becoming increasingly popular because they can safeguard your security and privacy when browsing the web. This is a reasonably red-hot topic at the moment, …

Extra Crunch gives members the opportunity to tune into conference call conducted and moderated by the TechCrunch novelists you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois discuss major announcements that came out of Facebook’s F8 conference and dig into how Facebook is trying to redefine itself …

With Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation( GDPR ), a set of rules who are able to fundamentally flip the ties between massive tech corporations that gather data, and the users they gather it from, is in force this year, data privacy and online utilization has been on everyone’s mind. As …