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Uber video recording rides in Texas thereby raising privacy concerns among activists
•Uber began the video recording program in Texas in July, and is conducting smaller tests of the program in Florida and Tennessee.
WhatsApp hack: How a simple VOIP call can open your phone up to hackers
Tech2 News Staff •WhatsApp has encouraged all its users to update to the latest version of the app.
Article 13: EU passes controversial new copyright law that will affect internet as we know it; will it impact India?
Asheetar •EU's passing of the law will come as a huge disappointment for internet freedom activists.
Electronic Frontier Foundation founder John Perry Barlow passes away
•He also wrote lyrics for Grateful Dead songs including “Black Throated Wind” and “Blown Away,” among others.
US federal appeals court upholds non-disclosure rules allowing the FBI to secretly issue surveillance orders
Fp Archives •A US federal appeals court on 18 July, 2017 upheld nondisclosure rules that allow the FBI to secretly issue surveillance orders for customer data.
Court of Appeals in New York has rejected Facebook's challenge against bulk search warrents
Fp Archives •New York state's highest court on Tuesday rejected Facebook Inc's challenge to 381 search warrants to uncover suspected widespread Social Security disability fraud by its customers.
US Court rules that FBI did not need warrant to hack child porn suspect’s computer
Fp Archives •The FBI did not need a search warrant to hack a suspect's computer during an investigation of a large child pornography website, a U.S. judge has ruled
Mobile phone firms' search for more bandwidth raises fears for WiFi
Fp Archives •A move by cellphone operators to use airwaves freely available in the same bandwidth as Wi-Fi networks has raised concerns that consumers' home Internet service could be disrupted, along with connected devices such as security monitoring systems.
US cybersecurity firm Cloudfare offers free protection for political blogs
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Secret US court approved wider NSA spying even after finding excesses
Fptechno •A secret U.S. intelligence court let the National Security Agency collect an expanded amount of data...
