TechCrunch reports that Florida state senators will soon vote on draft legislation that would impose the creation of encryption backdoors for law enforcement in social media platforms following its unanimous approval by the state's Senate Rules Committee.
Ninety percent of 40 widely known genetic testing services firms, including 23andMe, Ancestry, and MyHeritage, had received a C grade at most for their cybersecurity efforts, indicating the pervasiveness of poor cybersecurity practices across the DNA services industry, Cybernews reports.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been urged by Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, R-La., to activate its Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to thwart China and other nation-state adversaries from obtaining over 15 million Americans' genetic data upon the sale of embattled DNA testing services company 23andMe.
CNBC reports that Apple's appeal against the UK government's order to create a "backdoor" allowing access to encrypted iPhone user data will be heard in public after the country's Investigatory Powers Tribunal dismissed the government's attempt to conduct the hearing behind closed doors due to national security risks.
