Privacy

The House has approved legislation extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for three more years amid Senate uncertainty, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

A patient, Joseph R. Cox, discovered the vulnerability, which allowed any user with portal access to view other patients' documents, including personal information, medical histories, and photo identification.

Privacy-related regulatory penalties imposed by U.S. states on companies reached $3.45 billion last year, which is higher than the combined fines between 2020 and 2024, reports CyberScoop.

Geofence warrants allow law enforcement to compel tech companies like Google to provide location data for all users within a specified area and time frame.

Both sides of the political aisle have slammed the latest legislation implementing a three-year reauthorization for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which was introduced by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in the wake of the House's approval of a 10-day extension following failed attempts to achieve an 18-month renewal, CyberScoop reports.

The vulnerability stemmed from the behavior of IndexedDB, a browser database used for storing large amounts of data.

The Citizen Lab's report details how surveillance vendors, operating as covert entities, piggybacked on legitimate cellular providers to access and exploit network weaknesses.