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Feds secretly subpoenaed encrypted chat app Signal

06

Oct

2016

Newly revealed documents show that Open Whisper Systems (OWS) – maker of the encrypted chat app Signal – was secretly subpoenaed by the Feds earlier this year. Besides its own chat app, OWS is the force behind the Signal Protocol, which powers the encryption built into WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Google’s Allo. Read More

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Surgeon General sends warning to own staff: Your personal information may have been stolen

04

Oct

2016

The Surgeon General on Monday issued a warning to his staff that is all too familiar to federal employees: Your personal information may have been stolen. In an email, Surgeon General Vice Adm. Vivek H. Murthy told “commissioned corps” employees of the Public Health Service that information, including their names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers, […]

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Google, Apple, Twitter in large group backing Microsoft over ‘gag orders’

05

Sep

2016

Many civil rights groups, trade bodies and companies, including Google, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Apple and Twitter, have filed briefs in a federal court to back Microsoft’s move to prevent the indiscriminate use by U.S. law enforcement of orders that force companies not to inform their users about requests for their data. Under the Stored Communications […]

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