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Why You Should Opt Out of Sharing Data With Your Mobile Provider

March 20, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, AT&T, CCPA, cpni, custom experience plus, customer proprietary network information, Data Breaches, Electronic Privacy Information Center, enhanced relevant advertising program, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, gavin wright, maids, mashable, mobile advertising ids, T-Mobile, techtarget, verizon, verizon custom experience plus, verizon selects, Verizon Wireless

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:47:56 +0000

A new breach involving data from nine million AT&T customers is a fresh reminder that your mobile provider likely collects and shares a great deal of information about where you go and what you do with your mobile device — unless and until you affirmatively opt out of this data collection. Here’s a primer on why you might want to do that, and how. Certain questions might be coming to mind right now, like “What the heck is CPNI?” And, ‘If it’s so ‘customer proprietary,’ why is AT&T sharing it with marketers?” Also maybe, “What can I do about it?” Read on for answers to all three questions.

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Hunting down your data with Whitney Merrill: Lock and Code S03E11

May 28, 2022 0 Comments California Consumer Privacy Act, california privacy rights act, CCPA, clubhouse, cpra, Data privacy, data privacy law, data privacy request, lock and code, Podcast

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 15:27:11 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we speak with Whitney Merrill about why it is so difficult to get your own data from a company.

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Private photos leaked by PhotoSquared’s unsecured cloud storage

February 19, 2020 0 Comments amazon s3, amazon simple storage service (s3) bucket, Amazon web services, amazon web services (aws) storage bucket, Android, AWS, breach, CCPA, Cloud, cloud storage, credit card fraud, data breach, data leak, data loss, exposed database, financial fraud, identity theft, iOS, leak, Mobile, personally identifiable information, phishing, photo apps, photosquared, PII, port scanning, Privacy, s3 database, security threats, vpnMentor, web mapping

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:49:20 +0000

With no password required and no encryption in place, a burglar or ID thief could have seen your photos, your address and more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/v6L-VwD68-Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Senator calls for dedicated US data protection agency

February 17, 2020 0 Comments california consumer protection act, CCPA, consumer online privacy rights act, copra, data protection, facebook, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Government security, kirsten gillibrand, Law & order, online privacy, personal data, personally identifiable information, PII, Privacy, selling data

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:55:15 +0000

The US needs a data protection agency of its own, and Kirsten Gillibrand wants to be the one that makes it happen.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mOUsx7W00QI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Washington Privacy Act welcomed by corporate and nonprofit actors

February 4, 2020 0 Comments 2019 washington privacy act, 2020 washington privacy act, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, consumer reports, data portability, data privacy law, data privacy laws, data privacy legislation, facial recognition, future of privacy forum, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Microsoft, personal data, Privacy, right to access, right to correct, right to delete, senator reuven carlyle, sensitive data, washington privacy act, washington privacy act 2019, washington privacy act 2020, wpa

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:35:25 +0000

The Washington Privacy Act would extend new data rights of access, correction, and deletion to Washington residents, with new rules on facial recognition.

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Tags: 2019 Washington Privacy Act 2020 Washington Privacy Act California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA Consumer Reports data portability data privacy law data privacy laws data privacy legislation facial recognition Future of Privacy Forum gdpr General Data Protection Regulation microsoft personal data right to access right to correct right to delete Senator Reuven Carlyle sensitive data Washington Privacy Act Washington Privacy Act 2019 Washington Privacy Act 2020 WPA

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NIST’s new privacy rules – what you need to know

January 22, 2020 0 Comments CCPA, cybersecurity framework, GDPR, national institute of standards and technology, nist, Privacy, privacy framework, privacy regulation

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:56:40 +0000

How do you ensure you’re compliant with privacy regulations? NIST has released a Privacy Framework to help you get your house in order.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/qZfuL8tJwO4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

January 16, 2020 0 Comments adcolony, ads, advertising, amazon, Android, app privacy, appnexus, appsflyer, behavioral ad industry, braze, bucksense, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, clue, data brokers, digital marketing bill of rights for minors, drug use, facebook, fluxloop, fysical, GDPR, Google, gps data, grindr, happn, leanplum, location data, Marketing, Mobile, mobile ad platforms, mobile ads, mobile marketing, muslim: qibla finder, muslims, my talking tom 2, mydays, neura, norwegian consumer council, okcupid, openx, perfect365, PII, placer, places/fouraquare, political views, Privacy, profiling, pubnative, qibla finder, receptiv, religious preferences, safegraph, sexual orientation, smaato, targeted advertising, tinder, twitter, unacast, verve, vungle, wave keyboard

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 13:43:44 +0000

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NPeC4ksaHAY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Ad industry groups ask that the CCPA keep its mitts off their cookies

December 11, 2019 0 Comments adchoices, California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, Law & order, PII, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:56:06 +0000

Ad-blocking technologies can block the cookies that record consumers’ privacy choices, they claim.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/SmRFSPB5ipA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Pressure mounts for federal privacy law with second bill

November 29, 2019 0 Comments CCPA, consumer online privacy rights act, data protection, GDPR, Law & order, Privacy, privacy law, usa

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 11:03:37 +0000

Pressure is gathering for a federal privacy law in the US with the introduction of a second bill that would protect consumer data.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ByE-W6V8KfQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Microsoft says it will honor California’s new privacy law across US

November 13, 2019 0 Comments California Consumer Privacy Act, CCPA, chief privacy officer, GDPR, Law & order, Microsoft, Privacy

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:31:59 +0000

Microsoft said CCPA is good news, given the failure of Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy protection law at the federal level.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WyNVOQw0oyw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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