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Data Privacy Day: know the risks of Amazon Alexa and Google Home
Have you invited Google or Amazon’s AI assistants into your home? We offer some tips to help protect your privacy

Pay for experts to rise as cybercrime ‘to cost $6tn a year by 2021’
Rise in attacks means organisations need to focus their spend in the right places

News in brief: Fancy Bear ‘attacked TV network’; Lavabit comes back to life; museum does geek history
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School sues sysadmin for wiping its only login to Gmail
Sysadmin’s counter-suit alleges racial discrimination and claims that ACE underpaid him

Meitu app is all the rage, but privacy concerns abound
Be aware of what the the viral selfie-enhancing app is collecting, which includes Wi-Fi, Sim card, GPS location and cell data

News in brief: Note 7 fire cause to be revealed; Trump gives up cellphone; Cortana moves on to Android lockscreen
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Italian pair arrested over alleged hack of cardinals and masons
Pair allegedly behind EyePyramid malware that compromised thousands of accounts held

News in brief: flying cars take off; terrible passwords; Facebook picks Paris incubator campus
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Rogue developer used ‘backdoor’ web access to fuel cybercrime spree
Dutch police warn that up to 20,000 people’s accounts could have been compromised