Privacy News Round-Up #89 🌏️

Privacy News Round-Up #89 :earth_asia:

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked : TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

Indian Court Orders a Ban on Proton Mail : Proton Mail to be banned in India due to a court ruling? Unlikely but there is a court order in play.

US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car : Customs and Border Protection has called for tech companies to pitch real-time face recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle—not just those in the front seats.

Welcome to Sam Altman’s Orb Store : World opened the doors to its new San Francisco storefront with eight brand-new orbs ready for eyeballs to scan.

Microsoft’s AI Starts Reading All Your WhatsApp, Signal Messages : Timing is everything. Just weeks after America’s NSA warned about the hidden dangers with secure messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Signal, especially when users link phone apps to PCs and other devices, everything is suddenly worse — much worse.

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