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Epic Games Launcher Is Found Collecting Steam Data
Is the Epic Games Launcher Spying On Steam? With Fortnite running via the Epic Games launcher, it’s pretty certain that it is installed on a number of systems. This is particularly so with the release of their store last December which, with free games, gave us more than a little…
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Supermicro Shares Results of Third Party ‘Spy Chip’ Investigation
Putting Bloomberg’s Spy Chip Claims to Bed Following Bloomberg’s controversial article claiming that hardware spy chips are embedded in Supermicro motherboards, the server motherboard company opened themselves up to an independent third party investigation. This is of course to prove that they are not simply dismissing Bloomberg’s claims out of…
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Former Tesla Worker Makes Whistle-Blows With Shocking Claims
Former Tesla Employee Alleges Disturbing Claims It’s not unusual for a former employee of a company to have more than a few bad things to say about them. I mean, if you ever used to work somewhere I doubt you’ve got 100% feelings about it. In terms of Tesla though,…
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Google Sued on Behalf of 5.4 Million Britons Due to iPhone Snooping
Google are sued on behalf of 5.4m Britons sue to iPhone snooping between 2011-2012 Did you own an iPhone between 2011-2012? Did you search using Google? Then pay attention, a legal case has been submitted which means you could be entitled to compensation. Between 2011 and 2012 it was found…
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Lawsuit Alleges Bose Headphones Spy on Users
According to a lawsuit – proposed as a class-action – filed in Illinois last week, high-end audio equipment manufacturer Bose is spying on its customers and selling data regarding their listening habits without permission. The plaintiff, Kyle Zak, reports that he discovered his $350 wireless Bose headphones were, though the…
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UK Admits to Illegal Data Surveillance – Will Continue Doing it
Intelligence agencies in the UK have been found to engaging in illegal surveillance through mass data collection since 1998, as part of the same program revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has ruled that UK surveillance agency GCHQ was in breach of Article 8…
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Apple Designing Servers In-House to Prevent Snooping
With the amount of sensitive information stored on their servers, cloud providers take security very seriously. However, many cloud services actually use third-party servers like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure to run their platform. Even for those with their own servers, the hardware is made by and supplied by third-parties. In…
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SilverPush is Actually Legal?!
Earlier this week we reported that the FTC was warning people about apps that used the SilverPush framework. The reason was that the FTC believed users should be aware that SilverPush automatically collected and sent the data on to third parties, without any notification. SilverPush has now responded and is…
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FTC Warns Apps Could Be Invading Your Privacy
We all love downloading that new app. Be it a game or something more practical for everyday use, we love exploring it and finding out what it does. Seems like some Apps may be returning the favour and not even telling us about it as several apps could be invading…
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NSA to End Blanket Mobile Surveillance by Deadline
In recent years, we have had several revelations in regards to how and what our governments and our agencies do in order to “protect us”, this has at times included activities which go against the very laws and principles that the countries they swore to protect were founded on. One…
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US concerned Over Russian Activity Near Undersea Data Cables
Tensions between nations over Cyber warfare have increased dramatically over the last 5 years, from the US accusing China and Russia of systematically hacking into highly sensitive government systems through industrial means, to groups affiliated with IS and similar terrorist organisations who have cyber attacked various departments. Now, Washington is…
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Snowden Leak Reveals How Microsoft Helped the NSA Bypass Encryption
Privacy, spying, hacking, monitoring, tracking, just some of the words that people around the world have become frighteningly familiar with over the last few years. Edward Snowden uncovered many details of how our governments treat our data and he’s showing no sign of slowing down. His latest revelation reveals how…
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Edward Snowden Joins Twitter – Only Follows NSA
“Can you hear me now?” The stark words of Edward Snowdens first tweet as he joins social media platform Twitter. The account went live recently, gaining 160,000 followers in less than an hour, a number that has skyrocketed to almost 900,000 in less than a day and continues to grow exponentially.…
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GCHQ’s Karma Police Has Been Watching Everyone Online
The British intelligence services have been engaging in a mass surveillance program, the likes of which have never before been known, which has been recording the online browsing habits of “every visible user on the internet”. Through its program, dubbed Karma Police, the UK government’s intelligence and security organisation GCHQ…
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How to Stop Windows 7 and 8 From Spying on You
By now, the internet is saturated with articles advising Windows 10 users how to stop the new operating system from tracking and collecting their data, with many existing Windows 7 and 8.1 users breathing a sigh of relief that they rejected their free Windows 10 update. What many are unaware…
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