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What if everyone just said ‘Nah’ to tracking? Privacy is nearly dead, but we’re not even close to getting over it.
Privacy activists beg Google to ban un-removable bloatware from Android
Why is a 22GB database containing 56 million US folks’ personal details sitting on the open internet using a Chinese IP address? Seriously, why?
Blackout Bug: Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways
5G signals won’t make men infertile, sighs UK ad watchdog as it bans bonkers scary poster
ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases
Samsung demos keyboardless keyboard
I’m the queen of Gibraltar and will never get a traffic ticket… just two of the things anyone could have written into country’s laws thanks to unsanitised SQL input vuln
Bruce Perens Quits Open Source Initiative
IT exec sets up fake biz, uses it to bill his bosses $6m for phantom gear, gets caught by Microsoft Word metadata
Emirati ‘surveillance app’ ToTok promoted by Huawei as Apple punts it from store • The Register
Two missing digits? How about two missing employees in today’s story of Y2K
US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war – Pending tariffs on notebooks, phones, monitors shelved as super powers strike ‘prelimary’ deal
Microsoft enables phone calls from your Windows PC (as long as it’s paired with an Android)
Revealed: NHS England bosses meet with tech and pharmaceutical giants to discuss price list of millions of Brits’ medical data • The Register
When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona’s state regulators decide to play word games – Professional licensing rules collide with common parlance, again
Americans should have strong privacy-protecting encryption …that the Feds and cops can break, say senators
Apple sues former chief architect of the iPhone and iPad microprocessors, who quit in February to start data center chip startup Nuvia, for breach of contract
Since the FCC won’t act, Congress finally moves on robocalls by passing half-decent TRACED Act
Internet Society says private equity firm Ethos Capital will pay $1.135B for the .org top level domain registry
EFF warns of ‘one-way mirror’ of web surveillance by tech giants – led by Google: Online tracking report explores persistent privacy problems
Interview with the Internet Society CEO, as he tries to defend the sale of the .org top level domain registry to private equity firm Ethos Capital
RuneScape bloke was wrongly sacked after reading veep’s salary details on office printer
No wonder Bezos wants to move industry into orbit: In space, no one can hear you* scream • The Register
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