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It s been a busy week. There s a lot to catch up on. But before you continue reading, please take a minute to make sure you ve updated your iPhone to iOS 14.5. And once you have, use its new AppTrackingTransparency feature to tell Facebook and other companies to stop following your activity across other apps and websites. In fact, they all now have to give you the option, like it or not. When they do? Opt out.
That wasn t the only significant Apple update this week. On Monday the company also pushed out a patch for a macOS vulnerability that hackers had been actively exploiting to spread adware to Macs. The underlying flaw wasn t in macOS security safeguards, but rather in the logic of the operating system itself, and it would have let nearly any software sneak through. Security researchers also pointed out how Apple s handy AirDrop feature leaks email addresses and phone numbersâbut no fix is in sight for tha
For seven decades the United States and Europe have been moving in different directions on the right to privacy, and these days a major clash on the issue is now very much in prospect, writes Dick Roche.
Biden Promotes His $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Package and His Love of Train Travel
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The president is asking for an $80 billion increase in funding for rail projects. A group of Biden supporters launch a multimillion-dollar ad campaign trumpeting the White House coronavirus recovery package and infrastructure proposal.
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President Biden visited Philadelphia on Friday to mark Amtrak’s anniversary and used the occasion to promote his $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal, which includes $80 billion for mass transit.CreditCredit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
For a majority of his political career, President Biden was a commuter, making the 90-minute Amtrak Metroliner trip between Washington and his home in Wilmington, Del., when the Senate was in session. There were even a few trips thrown in when he was vice president.
Mary McCord, a former Justice Department official who approved efforts to snoop on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, has been appointed to advise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The same court excoriated government officials in late 2019 for providing misleading information in four applications to surveil Page, who served as a Trump campaign national security adviser.
The surveillance court appointed McCord, who served as assistant attorney general for national security through May 2017, to be an amicus curiae on April 15.
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) relies on eight amicus curiae to provide advice and expertise on matters related to foreign intelligence collection.