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Microsoft pledged to process and store all European cloud-based client data in the European Union amid unease in the region over the reach of US legislation on personal data collection.
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Google began a legal bid at Britain's highest court to try to block a class action alleging that it illegally tracked millions of iPhone users.
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An update to the software powering some billion iPhones around the world kicks in Monday with an enhanced privacy feature critics fear will roil the internet advertising world.
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Facebook said it had disabled accounts used by the Palestinian Authority's internal intelligence organisation to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political opponents.
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The EU unveiled a plan to regulate the sprawling field of artificial intelligence, aimed at helping Europe catch up in the new tech revolution while curbing the threat of Big Brother-like abuses.
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A Ukrainian national arrested for his role in a hacking group that compromised millions of financial accounts was sentenced to a decade in prison.
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Google violated Australian law by misleading users of Android mobile devices about the use of their location data, a court ruled Friday in a landmark decision against the global digital giant.
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Israeli spy agencies accused Iran of using fake social media accounts to lure citizens of the Jewish state abroad "to harm or abduct them".
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Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said he was more worried about the risk of a large-scale cyberattack than another financial crisis like that of 2008.
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Facebook said Tuesday that hackers "scraped" personal data of some half-billion users back in 2019 by taking advantage of a feature designed to help people easily find friends using contact lists.
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A bipartisan group of US senators sent letters to digital ad exchanges, including Google and Twitter, asking whether user data was sold to foreign entities who could use it for blackmail or other malicious ends.
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Microsoft won a nearly $22 billion contract to supply U.S. Army combat troops with its augmented reality headsets.
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Some jokingly said the cryptic tweet, ";l;;gmlxzssaw," was a US nuclear launch code. Others, that the Pentagon had been hacked.
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Several German lawmakers have once again fallen victim to a cyber attack, local media said Friday, with security experts pointing the finger at Russian hackers.
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Europe and the United States will use a thaw in ties to strike a pact that would allow for the exchange of private data across the Atlantic, replacing previous agreements struck down by an EU court.
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The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider an appeal by Facebook that would have derailed a $15 billion lawsuit over whether it illegally tracked users about a decade ago.
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A lawyer for a Cypriot hacker Joshua Pelloso Epifaniou, who has served almost four years behind bars, said he will not appeal against a one-year jail sentence in the US for cyber-crimes he committed as a minor.
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The United States sentenced a Russian and a North Macedonian on Friday to prison for their roles in a vast cyber crime operation.
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A Florida teenager accused of masterminding a Twitter hack of celebrity accounts in a crypto currency scheme has been sentenced to three years in juvenile prison in a plea agreement.
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The CEO of a Canada-based company that provides encrypted communications and a former associate have been indicted in the US on charges of facilitating international drug trafficking, the Justice Department said.
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US regulators listed Huawei among Chinese telecom gear firms deemed a threat to national security, signaling that a hoped for softening of relations is not in the cards.
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The Biden administration is reportedly close to a decision on retaliation for state-sponsored hacking as fears grew over the fallout from the latest of two major cyberattacks.
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Facebook has decided to halt its efforts to build a trans-Pacific undersea cable that would connect California and Hong Kong, due to potential national security risks.
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Police said Wednesday they had arrested at least 80 people and carried out hundreds of raids in two European countries after shutting down an encrypted phone network used by organized crime groups.
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The potentially devastating hack of Microsoft email servers, the second major cyberattack in months, adds pressure to the Biden administration as it weighs options for "hacking back" or other moves to protect cyberspace.
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