The Federal Trade Commission announced a $5.8 million settlement with Ring after finding the company compromised customers’ privacy by allowing employees and contractors to access private videos and failing to implement basic security protections that enabled hackers to take control of …
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On April 22, 2018, UAE government authorities install NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on the phone of Hanan Elatr, wife of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, during her detention at Dubai International Airport. Forensic analysis by Citizen Lab and the University of Toronto reveals that after Elatr …
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The U.S. Senate voted 82-to-4 on January 27, 1975 to form the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, chaired by Senator Frank Church of Idaho. Created after Seymour Hersh’s December 1974 NYT revelations about CIA assassination attempts, the …
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