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Are you a Massachusetts resident? Face surveillance by government poses a threat to our privacy, chills protest in public places, and amplifies historical biases in our criminal justice system. Massachusetts has the opportunity to become the first state to stop government use of this troubling technology, from Provincetown to Pittsfield. Learn more:

A US senator has introduced a new privacy bill which he claims goes further than the EUs GDPR, introducing prison sentences for culpable CEOs. What is your opinion on this bill? Learn more:

A series of newly unsealed rulings from the federal district and appellate courts state that the FBI's "Backdoor Searches" of Americans are a violation of privacy and constitutional rights. What are your thoughts on this? Let's have a discussion. Learn more in a great EFF article:

Germany's BSI tested Firefox, Chrome, IE, and Edge. Firefox was only browser to pass all minimum requirements for mandatory security features. Learn more:

Here are a few strategies to make the most of participating in the month-long celebration of open source software. Learn how you can get involved:

A Linux Sudo bug which allows users to run some restricted commands as root without permission has been discovered. Learn more about this security vulnerability in an informative Techworm article:

More than 350 ethical hackers got together in cities across Australia on Friday for a hackathon in which they worked to cyber trace a missing face', in the first-ever capture the flag event devoted to finding missing persons. Learn more about this hackathon:

Ethics checks and balances within an organization lower risks for everyone involved. Learn more in an interesting The Next Web article:

Tor Browser offers the best anonymous web browsing available today, and researchers are hard at work improving Tor's anonymity properties. Learn how Tor can help protect your privacy online in a great CSO article:

Old passwords never die " they just become easier to decode. That's the message from a tight-knit community of tech history enthusiasts who have been diligently cracking the passwords used by some of the original Unix engineers four decades ago. Learn more:

The tiny ATtiny85 chip doesnt look like the next big cyberthreat facing the world, but sneaking one on to a firewall motherboard would be bad news for security were it to happen. Learn more in an interesting Naked Security article:

There is a privacy threat lurking on perhaps hundreds of millions of devices, that could enable potential attackers to track and profile users, by using information leaked via the Tor network, even if the users never intentionally installed Tor in the first place. Learn more in an informative article:

Are you aware that hackers are bypassing some types of 2FA security? Get the details:

Have you heard that Unix co-founder Ken Thompson's 39-year old BSD password has finally been cracked? Learn more in an interesting The Hacker News article:

Have you heard that while Ubuntu developers are busy adding experimental ZFS support to their installer, the SUSE developers working on their YaST installer are working on offering better security options for their platform by beefing up the encryption capabilities at install-time? Learn more:

On Tuesday, California passed into law a three-year block of the use of facial recognition in police bodycams that turns them into biometric surveillance devices. What are your thoughts on this? Learn more in a great Naked Security article:

A team from MIT-IBM has developed a faster way to train video recognition AI, which could make it easier to run machine learning on mobile devices.

The road to routing all Domain Name System lookups through HTTPS is pocked with disagreements over just how much it will help. What is your opinion on this? Learn the details in an informative Wired article:

Are you a Joomla user? Details have been published online last week about a vulnerability in older versions of the Joomla content management system (CMS), a popular web-based application for building and managing websites. Learn more in a great ZDNet article:

A nationwide facial recognition ID program is underway in France, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator's protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Learn more: