proton has won an appeal in a swiss court over surveillance laws so this is kind of what like the the opposite story of what we just heard a few weeks ago which again this isn't a transparency report i don't think this is anything new the court has ruled in protons favor over an appeal about proton being required to store data and monitor email traffic the court ruled that email providers are not telecoms provided and are not telecom providers and therefore are not subject to data retention requirements um they are expecting more court cases like this in the future so be prepared that they may go either way and i think it just brings out that like this is a central company they're doing their best but they're at the end of the day they're a central company that has to respect the laws if you want to learn more about the proton case we really talked about that a lot more in a surveillance report a few weeks ago all right our next story will go to twitter where twitter is now requiring all employees to use hardware security keys to prevent future leaks google has actually been doing this exact thing for years and that's one of the reasons they've had so few data breaches at least compared to other companies twitter has also made it so that you can now use hardware keys as a user previously it was only sms or software you can now use hardware so yeah hardware keys are great on that note though speaking of yubikeys yubikey has released what is basically a yubikey lite so it is the security key it is NUMBER_TOKEN it has a usbc form factor and it has nfc capabilities so you can use it on mobile devices as well it is missing some of the major features that are present in the like original full version yuba key like for example the ability to use it for logging into your computer and also bit warden i was really sad to see that's not on there we will include the comparison page from yubico down in the show notes so that you can see exactly what it does and doesn't offer personally i love hardware keys i totally recommend them but i also say you should get two of them in case one breaks so seeing as the full version key runs minimum NUMBER_TOKEN that could be a lot of money for somebody whereas this NUMBER_TOKEN version if that does everything you need it to then you know hey that could be a good uh good compromise oh yeah that's a good idea get the cheap one for just a backup or that yeah so you get like your main one that's the main one and then you can just get a quick NUMBER_TOKEN one as backup cool all right and then our last company story a location data firm was getting gps data from apps even when people opted out so this is a company called huck i believe huq and they collect precise location data from website or apps excuse me and then they sell access to that data they have been collecting data from numerous android phones even when the location services are disabled uh it should be noted this was uh in app settings so if you went in the app and said no don't share my data it's still collected data but if you went to the device settings and turned off location services that shut it off so that is worth noting but i think this also highlights one of the issues with closed source we can't verify the apps are respecting our wishes you know i
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