FCC wants cars to make life harder for stalkers
The FCC wants car makers and wireless providers to make it harder for stalkers to use your car against you.
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SEC X account hacked to hawk crypto-scams
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account was compromised to take advantage of an expected Bitcoin ETFs announcement.
Read moreFacebook introduces another way to track you – Link History
Facebook has announced it will roll out a new option called Link History to mobile users around the world. What does that mean?
Read moreChrome starts the countdown to the end of tracking cookies
Google will soon roll out its Tracking Protection feature to some randomly chosen users in order to prepare for a full deployment.
Read moreUS government is snooping on people via phone push notifications, says senator
Government agencies have been asking Apple and Google for metadata related to push notifications, but the companies aren’t allowed to tell users about it.
Read moreSpanish media's $600M suit against Meta is based on GDPR noncompliance
Facebook parent company Meta is facing yet another legal challenge over user privacy, as a Spanish media company representing top media outlets in the country is suing the social media giant for $600 million for competitively unfair advertising practices based on noncompliance with the EU’s General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR).
The Information Media Association (La Asociación de Medios de Información, or AMI), has filed a €550 million ($600 million) lawsuit against Meta, claiming Meta’s ability to design personalized advertising on its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms based on its enormous user base represents an unfair competitive advantage in the advertising market in Europe, which includes media companies.
Social media giants to testify over failing to protect kids
US senators issued subpoenas for the CEO’s of five social media giants to testify about their “failure to protect children online”.
Read moreMeta sued over forcing users to pay to stop tracking
Privacy organization nyob has filed a complaint against Meta about their “Pay or Okay” model it has introduced for European users.
Read moreHow to go incognito in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari
Private browsing. Incognito. Privacy mode.
Web browser functions like those trace their roots back more than a decade, and the feature — first found in a top browser in 2005 — spread quickly as one copied another, made tweaks and minor improvements.
But privacy-promising labels can be treacherous. Simply put, going “incognito” is as effective in guarding online privacy as witchcraft is in warding off a common cold.
What is Contact Key Verification and how is it used?
Many business professionals require highly secure messaging solutions, particularly when they travel. Apple’s iMessage will soon offer a new secure identity verification system enterprise professionals might find useful. It’s called Contact Key Verification.
What is Contact Key Verification?
Apple actually announced the system in 2022. It is now expected to go live across the Apple ecosystem with the release of iOS 17.2 and updates for Macs and iPads.