Montana and Indiana TikTok Ban Stunts Unsurprisingly Fail in Court Both Indiana and Montana passed laws completely banning TikTok – both at the app store and private citizen level. Given that these laws were political stunts designed to try and impress voters, it is not surprising that they failed in court. The courts struck down […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Post Quantum Crypto Isn’t The Only Problem – Pre Stone Age Crypto is Also a Problem While some folks are worried about what is going to happen to encryption when quantum computing becomes real, other companies are still using antique crypto. Unfortunately, many of the companies who are using antiques are medical devices and higher […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Post Quantum Crypto Isn’t The Only Problem – Pre Stone Age Crypto is Also a Problem While some folks are worried about what is going to happen to encryption when quantum computing becomes real, other companies are still using antique crypto. Unfortunately, many of the companies who are using antiques are medical devices and higher […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Meta Launches Paid Facebook/Instagram Option in EU To satisfy EU privacy laws, Meta is going to offer an ad free paid version of Facebook and Instagram in the EU/EEA and Switzerland for (e ) 9.99 on the web and (e ) 12.99 for the apps since the have to give the app store 30 percent. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the NSO Group went from darling to villain quickly once what they were doing became public, there are many unrelated cousins that are doing equally nasty things and are staying in the shadows. Now, one more has been exposed. The Predator Files is a collaborative investigative action by a group of journalism organizations that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Norway fined Meta for its targeted advertising practices and issued a temporary ban several months ago. Now Norway has gone to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and asked for the ban to be made permanent and EU/EEA wide. Since Facebook makes most of its money from targeted ads and untargeted ads fetch a dramatically […]
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