State Dept. Says UN Cybercrime Treaty Must protect Human Rights On the eve of final negotiations at the UN for a long awaited cybercrime treaty, the US says they are focused on ensuring the treaty protects human rights. The US, along with 40 other countries — not including, Surprise, Russia or China — signed off […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After Privacy Fail, Google Tries to Secure Bard Results Google created the ability to share Bard results, but, of course, accidentally, Google is indexing those results, so if you think what you are doing is private, it might not be – but only if you intentionally create a share link. Read details here. Credit: The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is currently an unprecedented level of protests going on in the country. This comes from the draconian Covid-prevention lockdowns, the lack of food and medical care and the apartment building fire that killed a number of people, in part because the fire department could not get close enough to the building to get water […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For years U.S. telephone carriers have said that they can’t stop spam callers. Truth is that they make a lot of money from either sending or receiving these calls, so they had zero incentive to figure out a way to stop it. The problem would decrease a lot if you could believe the information that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FTC Approves $5 Billion Fine for Facebook The FTC commissioners reportedly approved an approximately $5 billion fine of Facebook for violating the 2011 consent decree in conjunction with the Cambridge Analytica mess. To put that in perspective, Facebook’s revenue just for 4th quarter of last year was $16.9 billion and their profit for that quarter […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]