Privacy News Round-Up #70 šŸŒ

ā€¢ Signal calls now work a lot more like Meet and Zoom (Signal calls now work a lot more like Meet and Zoom - The Verge): New features like call links and emoji reactions could make taking calls on Signal more appealing.

ā€¢ FBI, CISA say Chinese hackers breached multiple US telecom providers in targeted attack (FBI, CISA say Chinese hackers breached multiple US telecom providers in targeted attack | Fox News): Bad actors swiped cellphone customersā€™ call record data, including a ā€˜limited numberā€™ of government and political figures.

ā€¢ FBI issues warning as crooks ramp up emergency data request scam (FBI issues warning as crooks ramp up emergency data request scams ā€¢ The Register): Cybercrooks abusing emergency data requests in the US isnā€™t new, but the FBI says itā€™s becoming a more pronounced issue as the year draws to a close.

ā€¢ ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won (ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won | WIRED): US Immigration and Customs Enforcement put out a fresh call for contracts for surveillance technologies before an anticipated surge in the number of people it monitors ahead of deportation hearings.

ā€¢ The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ (The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++ ā€¢ The Register): CISA & FBI announced they were doubling down on their efforts to persuade software manufacturers to abandon ā€œmemory-unsafeā€ programming languages such as C and C++ for new code at least.