Privacy News Round-Up #75 🎄

• FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Move to fully end-to-end encrypted messengers (FBI Warns iPhone And Android Users—Stop Sending Texts): The FBI and CISA, the U. S. cyber defense agency, are warning Americans to use responsibly encrypted messaging and phone calls where they can. The backdrop is the Chinese hacking of U. S. networks that is reportedly “ongoing and likely larger in scale than previously understood.”

• Florida’s social media bans for minors to take effect Jan. 1 (Florida’s social media bans for minors to take effect Jan. 1): Teenagers across Florida will be kicked off social media at the end of the month. A new law banning kids under 16 from having social media accounts takes effect January 1. The law allows parents to give their children and social media companies permission if they are 14 or 15 years old.

• FBI warns against using two-factor text authentication (FBI urges using FIDO authentication and password managers for verification): The FBI is warning Americans to stop relying on text messages for two-factor authentication in the wake of a major network hack that could expose unencrypted messages to cybercriminals.

• The Paper Passport Is Dying (The Paper Passport Is Dying | WIRED): Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport’s days are numbered—despite new privacy risks. [paywalled]

• World(coin) must let Europeans comprehensively delete their data, under privacy order (World(coin) must let Europeans comprehensively delete their data, under privacy order | TechCrunch): “All users who have provided ‘Worldcoin’ with their iris data will in future have the unrestricted opportunity to enforce their right to erasure,” said the Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision, Michael Will, in a press statement.