The email service says it was unable to appeal a Swiss court’s demand to log the IP address of a French climate advocate.
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A Texas Abortion ‘Whistleblower’ Site Still Can’t Find a Host
Even the most extreme internet infrastructure providers have turned their backs on the website for violating their terms of service.
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.
I’m a Lyft Driver. My Passengers Act Like I’m Part of the App
When riders come into my car, it’s as if the human behind the wheel disappears.
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.
6 Things You Need to Do to Prevent Getting Hacked
You are your own biggest weakness, but changing just a few of your behaviors can reduce the chances that your online accounts get breached.
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.
Microsoft Power Apps misconfiguration exposes data from 38 million records
The leaked data included personal information for COVID-19 contact tracing and vaccination appointments, social security numbers for job applicants, employee IDs, names and email addresses.