ProtonMail: Compromised

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ProtonMail: Compromised
This week in Privacy News, Outlook reveals names when an email is spoofed, LAPD asks for your social media to feed into Palintar, and Whatsapp user messages can be sent to contractors for review. Also, ProtonMail may be forced to de-anonymize people for the government. We also talk about some rouge algorithm news.

Texas Bans Tech De-platforming
This week in Business News, a Texas website is taken offline for Wrong Think, El Salvador makes BitCoin an official currency, and Tesla will start selling its homicidal autopilot system. Also, Amazon rolling out casherless payments in Whole Foods and Texas tries to ban social media deplatforming. We conclude with SillyVille.

The Articles

Privacy
https://www.dionach.com/blog/spoofing-microsoft-outlook-contact/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/lapd-officers-collect-social-media-account-info-from-people-they-detain/

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-privacy-protections-for-its-2-billion-whatsapp-users

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/

Algorithms
https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/6/22659225/automated-hiring-software-rejecting-viable-candidates-harvard-business-school

https://www.rt.com/usa/533942-facebook-apology-video-recommendation/

https://www.techspot.com/news/91129-singapore-using-robots-detect-bad-behavior-among-public.html

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22664846/amazon-labor-algorithms-warehouse-newsom-california-senate

Business
https://www.techspot.com/news/91130-official-el-salvador-first-country-adopt-bitcoin-official.html

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/7/22660692/tesla-full-self-driving-software-release-date-leak

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/whole-foods-market-to-launch-just-walk-out-technology-at-two-locations

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/texas-abortion-snitch-website-kicked-off-godaddy-for-invading-peoples-privacy/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/9/22661626/texas-social-media-law-hb-20-signed-greg-abbott

SillyVille
https://www.techspot.com/news/91110-court-ruling-uspto-cannot-issue-patents-artificial-intelligence.html

https://www.techspot.com/news/91128-man-swallows-working-phone-requires-surgical-removal.html

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/new-roomba-promises-to-not-smear-dog-poop-all-over-the-house/