A long-awaited draft of a Congressional bill would extend privacy protections both on the Internet and off line, but privacy advocates said the bill did not go far enough in protecting consumers. A researcher scraped and archived public public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google. The People Nearby feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user s precise location, a researcher said. Read the full article [New York Times].
Source: https://threatpost.com/consumer-groups-say-proposed-privacy-bill-flawed-050510/73924/