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Tonya Riley

Tonya Riley covers privacy, surveillance and cryptocurrency for CyberScoop News. She previously wrote the Cybersecurity 202 newsletter for The Washington Post and before that worked as a fellow at Mother Jones magazine. Her work has appeared in Wired, CNBC, Esquire and other outlets. She received a BA in history from Brown University.

You can reach Tonya with sensitive tips on Signal at 202-643-0931. PR pitches to Signal will be ignored and should be sent via email.

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The FCC’s Jessica Rosenworcel testifies during an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Communications Commission on Capitol Hill on June 24, 2020. (Photo by Jonathan Newton-Pool/Getty Images)

New FCC privacy task force takes aim at data breaches, SIM-swaps

Government

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 11: Ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks with committee chairman Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Congress and intelligence officials spar over surveillance reforms

Government

WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 11: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Section 702 data helped take down Colonial Pipeline hacker, Biden administration says

Government

The U.S. Department of Justice. (bpperry/Getty Images)

DOJ charges two Russian nationals with historic Mt. Gox hack

Cybercrime

Person’s hand holding an iPhone using the Google Bard generative AI language model (chatbot) with prompt entry field, Lafayette, California, March 22, 2023. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

AI chatbots want your geolocation data. Privacy experts say beware.

Privacy

Senate Intelligence Committee Co-Chair Mark Warner, seen here at the U.S. Capitol on April 19, told CyberScoop he’s “frustrated” that more examples of Section 702 related cases haven’t been made public. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The White House says Section 702 is critical for cybersecurity, yet public evidence is sparse

Government

Close-up of Ring doorbell, equipped with a camera and machine learning capabilities, installed outside a home in the Marina Del Rey neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, October 21, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

FTC settles with Amazon Ring over hacking, security incidents

Technology

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is seen on a monitor while delivering remarks on the roll-out of the International Religious Freedom Report at the State Department in Washington on May 15 (Photo by Jonathan Ernst/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Section 702 data led to State Department warnings about North Korean IT scams, official says

Geopolitics

Microsoft President Brad Smith delivers a speech at the Web Summit in Lisbon on Nov. 3, 2022. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)

Microsoft urges lawmakers to adopt new guidelines for responsible AI

Government