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Sources: Companies https://www.pcmag.com/news/avast-to-archive-not-delete-users-collected-browser-histories https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8vjk/czech-data-protection-authority-investigation-avast-jumpshot https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/facebook-dating-launch-blocked-in-europe-after-it-fails-to-show-privacy-workings/ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/02/its-the-boot-for-tls-1-0-and-tls-1-1/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-removes-dashlane-password-manager-from-chrome-web-store/

Research https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/500-chrome-extensions-secretly-uploaded-private-data-from-millions-of-users/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/mac-malware-is-growing-fast-but-its-still-not-as-dangerous-as-the-attacks-on-windows/ https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615158/software-that-swaps-out-words-can-now-fool-the-ai-behind-alexa-and-siri/ https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/hacking-air-gapped-computers.html

Politics https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/02/09/powerful-iran-cyber-attack-takes-down-25-of-national-internet/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/us-gave-allies-evidence-that-huawei-can-snoop-on-phone-networks-wsj-says/ https://thehackernews.com/2020/02/Israeli-voter-data-leaked.html https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-to-decrypt-hard-drives-is-free-after-four-years-in-jail/ https://gizmodo.com/feds-find-fourth-amendment-workaround-buy-phone-locati-1841516436 https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/gilliband-law-data-agency/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/bug-hunter-finds-cryptocurrency-mining-botnet-on-dod-network/

Misfits https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/7/21128779/facebook-twitter-messenger-account-ourmine-hacked-nfl https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/09/elon-musk-tweets-out-deletefacebook-adding-simply-its-lame/ #surveillance #report #techlore