Privacy advocates have asked regulators to investigate Facebook’s recent acquisition of WhatsApp, and possibly even block it, due to concerns over how the social network will use the personal data of WhatsApp’s 450 million users. They’ve asked that Facebook “insulate” WhatsApp user information from access by Facebook’s data collection practices.
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East Bay man guilty of economic espionage; sold secrets to China
San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO — An East Bay resident and the Oakland-based company he founded were found guilty of stealing DuPont's secret recipe for making a chemical used to whiten products from cars to the middle of Oreo cookies and selling it to a competitor … |
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US businessman convicted in China economic espionage case
Chicago Tribune SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A California businessman was convicted on Wednesday of stealing DuPont trade secrets to help a state-owned Chinese company develop a white pigment used in a wide range of products. In a San Francisco federal court, a jury … US convicts men who sold DuPont secrets to China firm A US jury just convicted two men for selling a secret Oreo-whitening technique … US men convicted of selling stolen DuPont trade secrets to Chinese firms |
Digital Trends |
The Ukraine-Russia Cyber War Is Heating Up
Businessinsider India As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to mount – especially with Crimea's parliament voting to join Russia – cyberwarfare has begun. Russia has reportedly been tampering with communications networks, limiting access to many Ukrainian … Russian and Ukrainian cyber forces reportedly staring each other down Russia-Ukraine Standoff Going Online as Hackers Attack Superpower Russia: We're Back! |