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Google praised for rollout of anti-tracking policy updates

Google has won praise from the Electronic Frontier Foundation after it issued a new set of policies and default settings for its Location History feature that could limit police overreach in surveillance and search

Shaun Nichols December 16, 2023

Dropbox’s AI integration with OpenAI turns into a messaging mess – as Amazon’s CTO apologises over data protection post

"To data scientists and developers in the domain, the answers to these questions may be laughably obvious and the questions naive, but to most end-users they will not be."

Edward Targett December 14, 2023

Apple warns that scanning encrypted photos leads to a “dystopian dragnet”

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Apple warns that scanning encrypted photos leads to a “dystopian dragnet”

"Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance" says Apple's user privacy chief.

Edward Targett September 04, 2023

RFC 9420 aka Messaging Layer Security (MLS) – An Overview

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RFC 9420 aka Messaging Layer Security (MLS) – An Overview

MLS achieves its low complexity through the use of a binary tree. This means that the number of required operations and the payload size do not increase linearly with the group size but rather only logarithmically after a short warm-up period...

Raphael Robert July 18, 2023