U.S.- based audio chat app Clubhouse announced earlier this week safety measures to protect Afghan users living in the Taliban-ruled country. As the Taliban regained control in Afghanistan earlier this month, many residents tried to delete photos from their social media accounts and phones showing any connection to the West, or the former Afghan government. […]
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On Tuesday, Cryptocurrency trading platform, Binance revealed that it had hired Greg Monahan, a former IRS criminal investigator as the platform’s Global Money Laundering Reporting Officer (GMLRO), to investigate crypto money laundering allegations. As it bets on reinforcing its existence in the digital currencies market, Binance played its latest card to reinvent itself as a […]
As the Taliban negotiates with senior politicians and government leaders following its lighting-fast takeover of Afghanistan, U.S. social media companies are reckoning with how to deal with a violent extremist group that is poised to rule a country of 40 million people. Should the Taliban be allowed on social platforms if they don’t break any […]
Germany’s Hamburg privacy watchdog warned its government on Monday that the use of Zoom’s on-demand videoconferencing violates the EU’s privacy laws. Privacy advocates considered that the use of the U.S.-based service will lead to the transmission of EU data to the company’s hometown. “The transmission of data is said to reach the U.S., which violates […]
Mastercard announced on Thursday its plans to halt the issuance of cards with a magnetic strip by 2033. The global financial firm will have strip-less debt and credit cards in Europe starting from 2024, and across the globe by 2033, Mastercard declared in a statement. The company claimed that it will be the first payments network to phase out the technology, which dates to the 1960s. “Magnetic strip is reaching its expiration date with […]
Multiple federal agencies that operated in Afghanistan and worked with Afghan citizens have been hastily purging their websites, removing articles and photos that could endanger the Afghan civilians who interacted with them and now fear retribution from the Taliban. The online scrubbing campaign appeared to begin late last week when it became clear that the […]
California regulators released on Friday a ruling addressing T-Mobile’s misrepresented declarations to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) regarding the telecommunication operator’s grand vision for Sprint’s legacy CMDA network. It seems that U.S. operator, T-Mobile, has fabricated misleading information to government regulators concerning its 3G shutdown plans to gain approval of its merger with Sprint, […]
Business Efficiency Solutions (BES), a U.S. cloud software company has filed a lawsuit against Chinese telecom vendor Huawei, citing allegations of data theft and installing a backdoor that acts as an open-ended gateway of sensitive data on Pakistan’s citizens and the country’s national security. According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the lawsuit claims that in 2015, Huawei contacted BES asking for a collaboration in creating a duplicate of the Lahore network in […]
Facebook already asks for your thoughts. Now it wants your prayers. The social media giant has rolled out a new prayer request feature, a tool embraced by some religious leaders as a cutting-edge way to engage the faithful online. Others are eyeing it warily as they weigh its usefulness against the privacy and security concerns […]
T-Mobile launched on Sunday an investigation into an online forum post claiming to be trading a large volume of the operator’s sensitive data including Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and driver license information linked to 100 million users. The forum itself did not specifically mention the U.S. telecommunication operator, but according to a report by VICE’s […]