Items tagged with Privacy
A recent report has revealed that an employee surveillance app has been leaking sensitive information about employees and companies in a public storage resource, which raises the question as to the extent to which employers should be...
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Everyone knows (or should know) that the safest way to handle browser extensions is to make sure you're getting them from a trusted, reliable source. That alone isn't enough to ensure you want fall prey to hackers, though. Proving...
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Discord users in the United Kingdom and Australia may soon have to navigate through a new age verification process. The company is currently listing the new process as an “experimental” feature, and for now, it's only available in those...
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Apple has joined most of the tech world in riding the artificial intelligence wave, though the company is struggling mightily to integrate Apple Intelligence into its products. Embarrassingly, its AI has often failed to even get small...
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Robotaxi service provider Waymo might be prepping to use its in-vehicle cameras to train AI as well as target ads to riders. This info comes a leaked draft policy which the company confirms is real, but asserts besides being a feature in...
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Apple has been slapped with a €150 million ($162 million) fine by French antitrust regulators (Autorité de la concurrence) over the implementation of a privacy feature that the regulators found to cause economic damage to smaller...
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23andMe, the popular genetic testing service with DNA samples collected from millions of Americans, announced it is voluntarily filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. News of the pending bankruptcy came mere weeks after 23andMe's board rejected...
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You're probably familiar with the "I am not a robot" checkbox often seen when logging into a website. This security measure, a common CAPTCHA method, is one of several techniques used to distinguish between human users and automated bots...
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Millions of Microsoft Defender app users will lose access to its VPN feature, as Microsoft has revealed plans to remove support for this tool on 28 February 2025. While the thought of your privacy being affected may be cause for concern...
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A lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accuses AllState and its data analytics subsidiary Arity of illegally tracking drivers without their knowledge or consent, as well as collecting and selling location data. According to...
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Before you fill out that online job form in hopes of making some extra jingle for the holiday season, take heed of new warning by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to the FTC, there's been a "sharp spike" in online job scams...
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Mozilla’s Firefox web browser was the first to implement a Do Not Track option, and now appears to be the first browser to remove it. This option would send a website a request that a user didn’t wish to be tracked, although this was...
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Apple’s ability to design privacy conscious and secure technologies is being threatened as the company faces a $1.2B class action lawsuit. The plaintiff's lawyers claim that Apple isn’t doing enough to prevent the spread of child sexual...
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Google appears to be working on giving billions of Gmail users a new way of fighting against spam. It seems the company is preparing a new way of creating temporary email addresses within a Gmail account, possibly called ‘Shielded Email’...
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Take note of this company, Threshold: its new motion detection sensor kit is about to change not just the elderly caregiving world, but home security in general. For potential buyers who want to have real-time indoor motion detection minus...
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When Microsoft kicked off the Copilot+ PC era earlier this year, one of the more highly touted features was Recall, which would create a searchable history of everything a user did on their PC. It was immediately torn apart by many...
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A nonprofit digital privacy group called NOYB, short for None Of Your Business, has formally issued a complaint against Mozilla with the Austrian data protection authority (DSB), urging it to investigate the browser maker's "Privacy...
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For years the internet has been filled with stories about users that think someone is listening in on them, as ads appear to be eerily similar to things being discussed near thier devices. It’s an uncomfortable thought to suspect devices...
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While some users may be jumping for joy over Microsoft’s Recall tool showing up as a removable Windows 11 feature, the tech giant says not to get too excited, as it is just a bug. The change was spotted last week in the latest 24H2 version...
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Pretty much any new car sold these days offers a connection to the internet in some form for fashion. This is to power smart capabilities, like onboard navigation and a plethora of other functions. However, some automakers are allegedly...
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Social media platform X is now beginning to use data generated by its users to train Grok, the company’s AI search assistant. This update to its policy, which isn't the first policy change this year, was shared on the official X Safety...
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Google’s effort to end support for the use of cookies for user tracking in its Chrome web browser won’t be moving forward as the company originally planned. This initiative, dubbed Privacy Sandbox, has had several delays since it was...
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