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What Apple Can Do Next to Fight Child Sexual Abuse
The fallout from the company’s recent proposal has created a new opportunity to fix how it roots out abusive material across its devices.
Apple Backs Down on Its Controversial Photo-Scanning Plans
A sustained backlash against a new system to look for child sexual abuse materials on user devices has led the company to hit pause.
California Man Stole 620,000 iCloud Photos in Search of Nudes
Plus: The T-Mobile hacker, another big bad Microsoft bug, and more of the week’s top security news.
Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Nationwide
New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given location at a specified time.
The T-Mobile Breach Is Much Worse Than It Had to Be
The vast majority of victims weren’t even T-Mobile customers. Now their information is for sale on the dark web.
A Simple Software Fix Could Limit Location Data Sharing
Carriers know where you are every time your phone reconnects to the cell network—but with Pretty Good Phone Privacy, they wouldn’t have to.
A 5G Shortcut Leaves Phones Exposed to Stingray Surveillance
You may not have the full story about what network you’re on—and how well you’re protected.
The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools
Documents reveal that police bought facial-recognition software, vans equipped with x-ray machines, and “stingray” cell site simulators—with no public oversight.
AI Wrote Better Phishing Emails Than Humans in a Recent Test
Researchers found that tools like OpenAI’s GPT-3 helped craft devilishly effective spearphishing messages.