Collaborative document features are being made available inside Proton Drive, further extending the company's trademark pitch of robust security.
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Meta’s ‘pay or consent’ model fails EU competition rules, Commission finds
Preliminary findings by the European Commission investigating a controversial binary choice Meta has forced on regional users of its social neworks, Facebook and Instagram, since last fall does not comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Failure to abide by the ex ante market contestability regulation, which has applied on Meta and other so […]
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Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more
Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords controlling their online lives. Thus, the fediverse was born — an attempt to wrest control of microblogging services, such as Twitter and its ilk, away from centralized […]
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Experts say Telegram’s ’30 engineers’ team is a security red flag
Telegram's founder Pavel Durov says his company only employs around 30 engineers. Security experts say that raises serious questions about the company's cybersecurity.
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The EU Digital Identity Wallet: Everything you need to know about the EU’s plans for a universal digital identity system
If all goes to plan, Europeans will be able to download and use a free EU Digital Identity Wallet to access a wide range of public and private services.
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A new startup from Figure’s founder is licensing NASA tech in a bid to curb school shootings
Cover says what sets it apart is the underlying technology it employs, which has been exclusively licensed from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Google is making your movie and TV reviews visible under a new profile page
Google is making all your movie, TV shows, books, albums and game reviews visible under one profile page starting June 24, according to an email sent to users last month. These profiles are also searchable through Google searches, which can lead to users’ being profiled based on their likes and dislikes. The company first launched […]
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EU Member States remain divided on controversial CSAM-scanning plan — but for how long?
A key body of European Union lawmakers remains stalled over a controversial legislative proposal that could see millions of users of messaging apps forced to agree to their photo and video uploads being scanned by AI to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Critics of the plan — which run the gamut from tech industry […]
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Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers
A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is a risk to the future of web security, Meredith Whittaker warned in a public blog post Monday. She’s the president of the not-for-profit foundation behind the end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app […]
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Privacy app maker Proton transitions to non-profit foundation structure
Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused apps such as ProtonMail, is following in the footsteps of Signal and Mozilla by transitioning to a new non-profit foundation model. The newly setup Proton Foundation will serve as the main shareholder to the existing corporate entity that is Proton AG, which will continue as a […]
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