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WeChat introduces gold-backed mobile micropayments in China

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“With the gold hongbao (not official translation), like the cash hongbao, a sender can either send packets to certain persons or let the system randomly divide a certain amount into certain parts and send it to a chat group for group members to try their luck.   Tencent Micro-Gold (not official translation), the online gold investment service jointly launched by Tenpay, the online payment arm of Tencent (WeChat’s parent), and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), one of the largest state-owned banks, in late January 2017, is so far the only supplier of gold for the new hongbao service.”

Read more: http://technode.com/2017/02/03/wechat-gold-hongbao-mini-gold/

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Venezuela Arrests Bitcoin Miners; Leading Bitcoin Exchange Shut Down

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“Venezuelan police have arrested eight bitcoin miners in the last two week, and the country’s leading bitcoin exchange announced yesterday that it’s suspending operations because its bank account was revoked. The recent spate of incidents is causing members of the country’s bitcoin community to take new measures to conceal their activities.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/03/venezuela-surbitcoin-arrests-mining

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Border Agents Now Demanding Social Media Data from Americans

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“CBP recently began asking foreign visitors to the U.S. from Visa Waiver Countries for their social media identifiers. We raised concerns that the policy would be extended to cover Americans and private data. It appears our fears have come true far faster than we expected.”

Read more:  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/fear-materialized-border-agents-demand-social-media-data-americans

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Google, unlike Microsoft, must turn over foreign emails: U.S. judge

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“A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States, diverging from a federal appeals court that reached the opposite conclusion in a similar case involving Microsoft Corp.  U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Rueter in Philadelphia ruled on Friday that transferring emails from a foreign server so FBI agents could review them locally as part of a domestic fraud probe did not qualify as a seizure.”

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-usa-warrant-idUSKBN15J0ON

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Meet the scientists affected by Trump’s immigration ban

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“The US government has issued conflicting statements on whether the provisions apply to people who hold visas that would otherwise permit them to live, work or study in the United States — including those with the permanent resident visas known as green cards.  Nature spoke to more than 20 researchers affected by the new policy, who described their feelings of fear, shock and determination. Some asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by the US government.”

http://www.nature.com/news/meet-the-scientists-affected-by-trump-s-immigration-ban-1.21389

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Facebook blocks RT from posting until after Trump inauguration

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“RT has been blocked from posting content to its Facebook page. The ban, according to the Facebook bot, will last until Saturday 10:55pm Moscow time (2:55pm EST) and will extend across US president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.”

Read more: https://www.rt.com/news/374157-facebook-blocks-rt-content/

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DHS: Georgia voter registration breach attempt was legitimate work, not a hack

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“The Department of Homeland Security told Georgia’s Office of Secretary of State that the IP address associated with an attempted breach of the state agency’s firewall was tracked to an office in U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a revelation that has DHS ‘deeply concerned.'”

Read more: https://www.cyberscoop.com/dhs-georgia-incident-was-legitimate-work-not-a-hack/

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Your Right to Use Encryption

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“Today, encryption is used in many areas beyond traditional communications — it’s what ensures that our online bank accounts are secure; it can prevent someone from snooping on your Internet traffic at a coffee shop; and, most importantly, it’s what we rely on to secure our personal devices, like smartphones and computers, which contain our entire lives.  Government officials have started pushing for ‘backdoors,’ where an encryption system is intentionally weakened so that government can access whatever data it wants. But this idea is a nonstarter.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/your-right-to-use-encryption/

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Popular dolls transmit kids’ conversations to US military contractor

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“Once children talk to their toys, that voice data is sent to Nuance, a voice analysis firm that reportedly powers Siri and Samsung’s S Voice. It also holds contracts with the US military.  Both toys also accompany abysmal privacy policies that ultimately defer to Nuance’s Privacy Policy, which states that the company uses collected data to improve its products. One of its products, Nuance Identifier, is a ‘highly accurate voice biometric solution that allows public security officials to quickly and easily identify known individuals through their voice within large audio data sets.’ Law enforcement can use the software to identify suspects by their voice.”

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/12/8/13868826/my-friend-cayla-ique-intelligent-robot-privacy-policy

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Hackers steal 2 billion rubles at Russia’s central bank

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“The central bank did not say when the heist occurred or how hackers moved the funds. But so far, the attack bears some similarity to a recent string of heists that has targeted the worldwide financial system.  In January 2015, hackers got a hold of an Ecuadorian bank’s codes for using SWIFT, the worldwide interbank communication network that settles transactions. In October, hackers used the same technique to slip into a bank in the Philippines.  Two months later, hackers tried to make fraudulent requests at a commercial bank in Vietnam. They were stopped.  This past February, computer hackers stole $101 million from Bangladesh’s central bank — also by gaining access to SWIFT.”

http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/02/technology/russia-central-bank-hack/index.html

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